The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.
We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them.
I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.
People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?
And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.