It is very instructive to read Deming and Weber. Max Weber pretty much defined the modern conceit of bureaucracy. [1] W.E Deming wrote extensively on the "Ame

It is very instructive to read Deming and Weber. Max Weber pretty much defined the modern conceit of bureaucracy. [1] W.E Deming wrote extensively on the "American Disease". [2] In a few words management and measurement are both inescapable beyond a certain organisational size, and they are the problem, because in almost all scenarios they will expand to displace/strangle the actual work. It is a recognised general structural problem in systems. Of course there is much more to it than the above simplification which may sound like an extreme philosophy - but I have yet to encounter good refutations or counterexamples to this tendency. The answer, perhaps, is that small and many is beautiful. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming