all too often, when imputed organizational skill and power are deployed and the desired effect follows, all that we have witnessed is the same kind of sequence as that to be observed when a clergyman is fortunate enough to pray for rain just before the un-predicted end of a drought; that the levers of power—one of managerial expertise’s own key metaphors—produce effects unsystematically and too often only coincidentally related to the effects of which their users boast.
Bureaucracy is modern magic
