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It's been observed that once any organization reaches a certain size or age it acquires so many institutional rules and traditions, and has so many layers of st
by mkramlich 16y ago
It's been observed that once any organization reaches a certain size or age it acquires so many institutional rules and traditions, and has so many layers of staff, that it effectively lives more to serve itself than to serve the outside world. It also acts increasingly not to fight the problem it was meant to be a solution for, but to actually preserve and continue that problem, thereby maximizing the chance for future job security for the institution itself. It will increasingly not want to cure the problem, but to temporarily alleviate it -- alleviate it for only as long as the institution's services are purchased. Once that happens, the organization has become a bureaucracy.