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Rather than focusing on continuous improvement and getting better, bureaucracy merely adds complexity and inefficiency – and costs – to the status quo.
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…informed acquiescence cultures tend to be management-oriented, with an established managing class and a well-entrenched bureaucracy.
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…structure situations so that people can take risks to deal with difficult bureaucratic and political problems without having to put their lives on the line.
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When you have disciplined thought, you don’t need bureaucracy…
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…the purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline – a problem that largely goes away if you have the right people in the first place.
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Avoid bureaucracy and hierarchy and instead create a culture of discipline.
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Anyone who has ever worked in an unhealthy organization – and almost everyone has – knows the misery of dealing with politics, dysfunction, confusion, and bureaucracy.
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Science tends to look more like bureaucracy, and in standard bureaucracies no single mind has much of a grasp on the whole.
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The bureaucrat might be defined as one so obsessed with her organization’s rules that she forgets its purpose.
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The view that people at work can’t be trusted to carry out their jobs without close supervision is one of the hallmarks of bureaucracy.
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