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The Castle by Franz Kafka

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Around the time of Franz Kafka’s birth in Prague, sociologist Max Weber was some 250 miles away, beginning studies at the University of Heidelberg that would eventually lead to his influential theory of bureaucratic organizations.

Although the word “bureaucracy” is usually used pejoratively nowadays, filled with connotations of inefficiency, mindless rul…

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