Rigor Cartis

Peter and Hull have spent considerable time studying incompetence, and are famous for the Peter  Principle, which is nothing but the 80:20 rule. It means that 20 % of the people do 80 % of the work or 20% of the inventory has 80 % of the value .They have talked about the managers or officers suffering from ‘Rigor Cartis’. This is a condition in which people suffer from an abnormal interest in the construction of organisational flow charts and the issues of that kind. They strongly believe that every scrap of paper or information should follow the chart, even at the cost of undue delays and waste of organisational resources. The ‘Rigor Cartis’ patient is actually a drag on efficiency. These kind of people are often found in government organisations where paper tigers abound. The people who suffer from this disease are the ones who are frantically busy drawing up reports and having meetings after meetings. They often ask for written proposals, but never have enough time to go through these reports. There is too much of this phenomenon in many organisations that I have seen, and decisions often take months, where it should normally be a matter of days.  Is any of you experiencing Déjà Vu?