Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

The best means of making committees innocuous, which either did nothing or cooked up
impracticable decisions, was to give them some real work to do. It was then amusing to see
how the members would silently fade away and were soon nowhere to be found. It made me
think of that great institution of the same kind, the Reichstag. How quickly they would
evanesce if they were put to some real work instead of talking, especially if each member
were made personally responsible for the work assigned to him.
I always demanded that, just as in private life so also in the movement, one should not tire of
seeking until the best and honestest and manifestly the most competent person could be
found for the position of leader or administrator in each section of the movement. Once
installed in his position he was given absolute authority and full freedom of action towards
his subordinates and full responsibility towards his superiors. Nobody was placed in a
position of authority towards his subordinates unless he himself was competent in the work
entrusted to them. In the course of two years I brought my views more and more into
practice; so that today, at least as far as the higher direction of the movement is concerned,
they are accepted as a matter of course.
The manifest success of this attitude was shown on November 9th, 1923. Four years
previously, when I entered the movement, it did not have even a rubber stamp. On November
9th, 1923, the party was dissolved and its property confiscated. The total sum realized by all
the objects of value and the paper amounted to more than 170,000 gold marks.