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I often ponder if there is some sort of heuristic law that determines the level of bureaucracy based on an organization's structure.
by mildchalupa 4y ago
I often ponder if there is some sort of heuristic law that determines the level of bureaucracy based on an organization's structure.
- nine_k 4y agoIn the case of the Congress, the problem is not bureaucratic slowness but the desire that as many companies from every state as possible took part in the project. Every congressperson wants to bring some business to their constituencies; what this business ultimately achieves may be of secondary importance.
- BurningFrog 4y agoI think all organizations drift toward dysfunction over time. Those that have no competition inevitably end up there.
- dylan604 4y agoI think there's an inverse square rule relating the size (number of employees/managment) to the dysfunction
- WalterBright 4y agoThe amount of time it takes a group of people who decided to go somewhere to actually get in their cars and get moving goes up as the square of the number of people.
- dylan604 4y agoIn that scenario, there's an inverse square law of how much cannabis was consumed between that group of people just to come to a consensus of where to go to get food that everyone has already agreed to being hungry an hour ago.