Bureaucracy
Philosophy
After reading Bullshit Jobs, it becomes self-evident to me that the first step to avoiding bureaucracy would be to start with meaningful jobs. Here mission and purpose is key, with clarity on theze topics being most fundamental. Thus, the first step ant bureaucracy is to propose a coherent mission, philosophy, and teleology that keeps people engaged within bounds of meaning, freedom, and self-determination. This implies that ethical work and Life-Work Integration can be the only way perhaps to sidestep bureaucracy.
Then we can talk about lean, agile, Agile Waterfall, flat management, The Effective Executive, etc.
Practical
Though possibly useful for preserving the core as in Good to Great, bureaucracy without built in mechanisms for change is a deadly disease because the only constant is change. Any documentation or process that servers for organizational learning or improvement is NOT bureaucracy - it helps the evolution process. Bureaucracy with no provision for change is death.
To minimize bureaucracy, OSE proposes:
- Maximize the Open Sector for providing goods and services
- Develop Universal Basic Assets to the highest extent possible, to eliminate manipulation of people through access to their basic needs
- Cultivate a mindset of Abundance and its practice, by Learning How to Learn to achieve personal and political transformation towards responsibility
- Level the playing field in enterprise by normalizing improvement towards best practice through open collaboration and sharing
- Develop abundant money and economic systems, so these key sectors are not enforcing scarcity