Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.

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Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.

Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.

As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their...

As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their...

Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for...

Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for...

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be...

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be...

But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in...

But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in...

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on...

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on...

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs...

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs...

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is...

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is...

Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people...

Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people...

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree,...

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree,...

Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable...

Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable...

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to...

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to...

You are attached to what you attack.

You are attached to what you attack.

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule...

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule...

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which...

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which...

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability...

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability...

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so...

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so...

Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of...

Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of...