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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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

[goolulusaurs]

Thanks for the recommendation. I am a big fan of Weber, not familiar with Deming but his work sounds very relevant. In general I tend to agree that beyond a certain size organization these problems seem unavoidable. I've read Systemantics/The Systems Bible and it seems to come to a similar conclusion.