In practice, the individual or individuals at the top of these institutions are often there because, as happens regularly in great organizations, the… - John Kenneth Galbraith
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In practice, the individual or individuals at the top of these institutions are often there because, as happens regularly in great organizations, theirs was mentally the most predictable and, in consequence, bureaucratically the least inimical of the contending talent.
John Kenneth Galbraith (15 October 1908 – 29 April 2006) was a Canadian-American economist and author.
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