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The art of making decisions by committee until no one remembers whose idea it was.
means The management of an organization, government, or set of tasks — the people and processes who run things and carry out policy.
from From Latin administrare, 'to help, manage, or carry out' — built from ad- ('to') plus ministrare ('to serve, attend'), itself rooted in minister, meaning servant or attendant (the same root that gives us 'minister'). So the word's bones mean something like 'to render service toward' — a far cry from the paperwork and committees it now conjures, though the idea of being in service to a task has quietly survived the centuries.
- ironic root
- Comes from the same root as minister, meaning servant
- political reset
- Each US president's term is literally called an administration
- corporate twin
- Business admin and government admin share identical Latin DNA
- size paradox
- Bigger administrations often mean slower, not stronger, decisions