Becoming more bureaucratic kills companies. And yet no one who introduces measures that make a company more bureaucratic ever seems to realize they're doing it. All they see is the upside.
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Fortunately there is a mechanism for ensuring that the median company isn't too bureaucratic: startups. Companies never become less bureaucratic, but they do get killed by startups that haven't become bureaucratic yet, which amounts to the same thing.
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Hypothesis: The degree of bureaucracy in a country's private sector is inversely proportional to the rate of startup formation.
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kind of wonder how that could apply to the public sector
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Competition between states
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I’m sure I read that some big companies have created “startups” within their own corporation. To compete with their existing products and not have this bureaucracy, I assume.
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A bit wasteful to re-invent the company function to clear out the bureaucracy, but perhaps human nature dictates it.
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I rallly like Yves Morieux’s take on building reciprocity instead of bureaucracy
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Are there any examples of companies (or organizations/countries) becoming less bureaucratic? Under what conditions?
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An example of a company becoming less bureaucratic might be Semco, a large engineering firm in Brazil. It shifted to be less hierarchical. (See the book, 7-Day Weekend.)https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2016/08/29/the-big-company-that-has-no-rules/ …
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Apple became less bureaucratic after Steve Jobs deposed Gil Amelio.
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