Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.
More Quotes from Robert Shea:
As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out.Robert Shea
The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.
Robert Shea
It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.
Robert Shea
I think there may be ways to tame the organizational beast, though I have hardly room in this essay to do more than suggest that such means exist.
Robert Shea
The world of work is not a straightforward career ladder as it was years ago. It's more like a jungle gym.
Robert Shea
This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.
Robert Shea
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Military QuotesBased on Keywords: paradigm
If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.
Richard Petty
Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
Patricia Velasquez
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Daniel Burnham