[GFischer]

Consultants are also part of the problem.

I did a Master's degree that shared half its classes with the MBA, and we had some case studies where a consultant was the hero by literally tearing down a wall between sales and operations (the small company had communication and "empathy" issues).

I always end up linking to this summary of Chapter 12 of Peopleware:

http://javatroopers.com/Peopleware.html#Chapter_12

[Terr_]

I'm reminded of an old Dilbert comic--which I can't seem to find online--where the CEO or consultant is hailed as visionary by alternately proposing "centralize everything which is decentralized" and "decentralize everything which is centralized."

I guess that could be applied to physical space...

[m_myers]

I believe it's a page from Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies, not an actual strip.

[Terr_]

I'm quite certain there was--if not a full strip--at least an illustration involving the the CEO... Not the now-staple pointy-haired manager, but the heavily-jowled guy who's been supplanted by the bullet-headed CEO in recent years.

Each time, a diagram is behind him, either of a hub-and-spoke diagram or a spread-out cloud of nodes.

[m_myers]

I remember exactly the illustrations you're talking about. They were on a left-hand page of the book.

Build a Better Life is composed mostly of pages divided into quadrants, in which Dogbert introduces the page's theme in the upper left and the next three sections illustrate it.