Problem Card · Mature Scale · Institutionalize It
Bureaucracy Accumulates
You may recognize this when
- Meetings, layers, approvals, reports and policies remain because they once solved a problem and nobody owns subtraction.
- Each mechanism can appear reasonable in isolation while the combined system becomes slower and more elaborate.
What it looks like
Meetings, layers, approvals, reports and policies remain because they once solved a problem and nobody owns subtraction. Each mechanism can appear reasonable in isolation while the combined system becomes slower and more elaborate.
A question to test it
What recent example from your own company would confirm or rule this out?
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