bean-counting

What does it take to inspire people and defeat a bean-counting corporate bureaucracy?

Life Lessons From the Car Guy Bob Lutz 2011

I am a staunch nonbeliever in bean-counting in relationships.

Carolyn Hax: Divorced dad is torn over move to be with girlfriend Carolyn Hax 2010

In fact, by taking her beat-is-better-than-treat message to venues ranging from "The View" to "This Week" to Time magazine, Shriver is likely to change the frame of the healthcare debate -- that is, change it from its current focus on bean-counting finance to a renewed focus on heroic medicine.

James Pinkerton: Maria Shriver's Kennedy-esque Dream: A World Without Alzheimer's James Pinkerton 2010

What does it take to inspire people and defeat a bean-counting corporate bureaucracy?

Life Lessons From the Car Guy Bob Lutz 2011

And paper police are neck deep in Excel spreadsheets and bean-counting, what other types of police are there, other than the aforementioned ‘proper’ police? p.p.s. I know about the RTA/RTC argument, but a community street hygiene technician is still a bin-man in my house. on August 22, 2009 at 5: 45 pm dungbeetle

Is There Anybody Out There? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

"Deficit reduction can often become a mindless bean-counting exercise," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan nonprofit focused on fiscal-policy issues.

Unintended Pregnancies Cost Government $11 Billion a Year Kristina Peterson 2011

Economists are not the same as bean-counting hacks who focus on money or some other statistic alone.

DeLong on Borjas on Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Costly because of its wasteful infrastructure of bean-counting, bill-writing, debt-collecting, and uncreative accountancy.

Letters: Unpalatable medicine for the NHS 2011

"In a bean-counting, individual performance-based organization, my contract [as a boss] is I will monitor your output and count your widgets," says Corinne Bendersky, Ph. D., a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Is Your Boss Cheating On You? 2010

So, in a rare case where bean-counting is the way to go, the husband needs to let go of any notion of an ideal outcome here, in direct proportion to the wife's distance from her notion of an ideal outcome.

Carolyn Hax: Pregnancy from rape poses many dilemmas for couple 2010