This strikes me as a good definition of a bureaucrat (or middle manager for that matter) "But their actual day-in, day-out work involves the coordination of var

This strikes me as a good definition of a bureaucrat (or middle manager for that matter) "But their actual day-in, day-out work involves the coordination of various teams and resources across a large organization based on established administrative procedures. That’s a bureaucrat." I meet a lot of product managers and business people who call themselves creative--and some are. The test is whether they are wedded to "established administrative procedures" or they are able to take risks and run experiments that depart from past practice in an effort to explore for possible improvements and better outcomes.