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You say bureaucracy, but what I think you mean is complexity.

Bureaucracy is a type of complexity that occurs once systems become to big for a small well trained group of people to manage.

AI/humans managing the system will work for a while, we'll be able to manage the current complexity better, but it won't last. We'll make even more complex systems that become unmanageable.




No. I said bureaucracy and I meant bureaucracy. Complexity is not what causes the problem of low agency in organizations. Bureaucracy is. There are many ways you can choose to build organizations to respond to complexity; Bureaucracy is one of them, and Bureaucracy is the one that takes agency away from your people and drives apathy.




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