The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. Never make a decision you can get someone else to make. Nothing is as temporary as that which is called permanent. Trust only those who stand to lose as much as you if things go wrong.
People specialize in their area of greatest weakness.
Cleanliness is next to impossible. The length of a progress report is inversely proportional to the amount of progress. You get the most of what you need the least. Any bureaucracy reorganized to enhance its efficiency is immediately indistinguishable from its predecessor. Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean down to the bone.