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The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy
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The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy

by Mark Schwartz
October 2020
Beginner
290 pages
7h 50m
English
IT Revolution Press
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OVERTURE:TRY IT YOURSELF

He gains consciousness from sensuous slumber, sees that he is a man, looks around and finds himself to be living in a state. Force of need cast him there before he was capable of freely choosing this condition.

—Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man

Everything is simpler than we can imagine, at the same time more complex and intertwined than can be comprehended.

—Goethe

A Revelatory Puzzle

Imagine that you’re going to create a large organization from scratch to produce a product or accomplish a mission. Or perhaps you’ve been asked to take over management of a big group of people who are standing around waiting for you to tell them what to do. Organizations grow and evolve, but let’s just shortcut all ...

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ISBN: 9781098124199