Organisational Anti Patterns

Here are some of the anti patterns of org.

Analysis paralysis: Devoting disproportionate effort to the analysis phase of a project
Cash cow: A profitable legacy product that often leads to complacency about new products
Cost migration: Transfer of project expenses to a vulnerable department or business partner
Crisis mode (a.k.a firefighting mode): Dealing with things only when they become a crisis, with the result that everything becomes a crisis
Design by committee: The result of having many contributors to a design, but no unifying vision
Escalation of commitment: Failing to revoke a decision when it proves wrong
Management by neglect: Too much delegation
Management by numbers: Paying excessive attention to quantitative management criteria, when these are non-essential or cost too much to acquire
Management by perkele: Authoritarian style of management with no tolerance for dissent
Management by wondering: Expecting a team to define their own objectives, and then wondering what they're doing
Milk Monitor Promotion: A pseudo promotion (a better sounding title), with no additional responsibilities or pay increase, which is given as a quick and costless way to make the employee work harder.
Moral hazard: Insulating a decision-maker from the consequences of his or her decision.
Mushroom management: Keeping employees uninformed and misinformed (kept in the dark and fed manure)
Stovepipe: A structure that supports mostly up-down flow of data but inhibits cross organizational communication
Vendor lock-in: Making a system excessively dependent on an externally supplied component Violin string organization: A highly tuned and trimmed organization with no flexibility