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The irony of setting up a '“Bureaucracy Mailbox” for any examples any of you see where we might have bureaucracy' while announcing an edict enforced by centrali
by benjiweber 2y ago
The irony of setting up a '“Bureaucracy Mailbox” for any examples any of you see where we might have bureaucracy' while announcing an edict enforced by centralised control to replace autonomous decision making about where & how to work.
- goostavos 2y agoThis is not the first "we're starting a committee to figure out what to do about there being too many committees" I've seen in my ~7 years here. Makes me laugh every time.
- lesuorac 2y agoThe best is when the top issues the committee finds outlast the committee.
- zeptian 2y agothis memo is one for the ages. filled with management speak.
- dbish 2y agoWell the current CEO is an MBA. Post founder, MBA days morph into this
- beachy 2y agoA long time ago I joined Deloitte to set up a local software dev. practice. A few days in I was invited to join a "bureaucracy reduction taskforce". Someone handed me a literally 12 inch thick stack of paper I was meant to read up on before the first meeting. I gave my regrets and withdrew from the taskforce (there were no repercussions - apparently a few others had noped out as well).
- DonsDiscountGas 2y agoI choose to believe that was a strategy. Invite everybody so they feel included, weed out almost everybody so it's a small group and can maybe get something done