Max Weber quote on bureaucracy as "the most rational means" ... part of a short series on the long arm of management theorists reaching out from the late 19th and early 20th centuries into that of the 21st.

1. cubicleland
est. circa 1900

2. “Experience tends universally to show that the purely
bureaucratic type of administrative organization ...”

3. “... is, from a purely technical point of view, capable of
attaining the highest degree of efficiency ...”

4. “... and is in this sense formally the most rational known
means of carrying out imperative control over human
beings. ...”

5. “It is superior to any other form in precision, in stability,
in the stringency of its discipline, and in its reliability.”
- Max Weber

6. This man is managing
your company