Inefficient Processes Quotes

For every hour of brains, you will be charged three hours. The other two hours go to management and project management, which is to say they are wasted.

Looking at U.N. staff and budgetary rules and regulations, one might think some of them were designed to prevent, rather than enable, the effective delivery of our mandates. It benefits no one if it takes nine months to deploy a staff member to the field.

Committees do harm merely by existing.

Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to your left arm with a leaky valve.

A lot of [bureaucratic] rules were created a long time ago when there were different challenges, and they are now causing negative side effects.

The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.

We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.

Governments cannot do innovation. There are too many audits, and no one stays in a role for long enough.

The reality is, there's still so much we haven't yet figured out. There's still so much stuff that has not been made more, frankly, efficient.

Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar.