We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

Actual Charlton Ogburn quote: "We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably, the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization." | Cf. Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, ISBN 9780199567072, p. 259. | An example misquotation is by Senator Byrd in Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1974, 1973, p. 1132; an earlier one in 1969 by Ridge, Value analysis for better management, §7, p. 98.