Comments on: COB-22: recruiting new bureaucrats http://purplemotes.net/2008/04/27/cob-22-recruiting-new-bureaucrats/ a journal of whimsy and hope Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:36:39 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Douglas Galbi http://purplemotes.net/2008/04/27/cob-22-recruiting-new-bureaucrats/comment-page-1/#comment-16598 Douglas Galbi Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:04:51 +0000 http://purplemotes.net/2008/04/27/cob-22-recruiting-new-bureaucrats/#comment-16598 Bureaucratic skills are important for everyone. As the economy continues to develop, I expect that most persons will be engaged in bureaucracy most of their time, at work and outside of work. But I agree that there are highly attractive bureaucrats. Bureaucratic skills are important for everyone. As the economy continues to develop, I expect that most persons will be engaged in bureaucracy most of their time, at work and outside of work. But I agree that there are highly attractive bureaucrats.

]]> By: Andy Havens http://purplemotes.net/2008/04/27/cob-22-recruiting-new-bureaucrats/comment-page-1/#comment-16561 Andy Havens Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:05:18 +0000 http://purplemotes.net/2008/04/27/cob-22-recruiting-new-bureaucrats/#comment-16561 "Bureaucrats regularly sacrifice themselves for the good of the organization." This is true, I've found, in small, micro-environments as well as the greater sacrifice of a life given over to bureaucracy. A good bureaucrat will, I believe, endeavor to take on bureaucratic tasks that might otherwise have fallen to more operationally directed co-workers. In this way, he accrues to himself tasks for which he is the best prepared, and spares his fellows from having to work outside their range of experience. In effect, he becomes a bureaucratic attractor. Without his efforts, many others would be distracted by bureaucracy than is the case now. It may be much more efficient, on a macro level, to have one dedicated bureaucrat, as opposed to 10 non-bureaucrats whose time is 10% consumed by bureaucracy. "Bureaucrats regularly sacrifice themselves for the good of the organization."

This is true, I've found, in small, micro-environments as well as the greater sacrifice of a life given over to bureaucracy. A good bureaucrat will, I believe, endeavor to take on bureaucratic tasks that might otherwise have fallen to more operationally directed co-workers. In this way, he accrues to himself tasks for which he is the best prepared, and spares his fellows from having to work outside their range of experience. In effect, he becomes a bureaucratic attractor. Without his efforts, many others would be distracted by bureaucracy than is the case now.

It may be much more efficient, on a macro level, to have one dedicated bureaucrat, as opposed to 10 non-bureaucrats whose time is 10% consumed by bureaucracy.

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