"Organization is the enemy of improvisation
It is a long jump from knowing to doing
Committees take the punch out ...."
Lord Beaverbook, Minister of Aircraft Production for Britain in WW II
So, about "organization" Max Beaverbrook is really speaking of bureaucracy that is encumbered by rules designed to put accountability with the institution rather than the individual (just following the rules ....) and thereby contain or restrain those that would go outside the rules.
But wait!
Along comes an emergency and the rules go out the window. Now, risk-taking and entrepreneurship are in, and the organizational pyramid is a shambles. Ad hoc relationship meshes form that connect all the right people, regardless of where they ordinarily fit in the structure.
It's no small matter how flat and responsive an organization can get when the circumstances are dire.
One wonders why it takes an emergency .....
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