Bureaucracy Built with Command and Control for Stability

Organizational Innovations for Modern Enterprise

14 Bureaucracy vs Organic Structure

THE OLD WAY: Bureaucratic systems of command and control are needed to achieve stability.

Bureaucracy is perhaps the best known characteristic of old-style organizations. The term was first coined by French civil servants who worked at desks ("Bureau" is French for desk). As this was after the French Revolution, great emphasis was placed on the uniform treatment of each and every citizen... ... read the 197 words that used to be in this web article by buying...

The objectives pursued with bureaucratic systems of command and control, amount to 'too little', 'too late'. Aim higher and get there, by being better.

... Chapter 14 Excerpt: 'Bureaucracy vs Organic Structure'

Leaders must work hard to bring all the right elements together to produce even a single success. Without order and movement, the people leaders rely upon may float away on waves of boredom, apathy or politics. In this relentless endeavour, leaders have had to respond to two questions. First; "How do we achieve order?" And second; "What are our goals?" Regrettably, these two questions are so elementary that they are often overlooked, with their answers taken for granted. Or should we say, the answers are mistaken?

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