by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
The success of many endeavors should lead to dissolving the endeavor. It is unfortunate, however, that the result is often bureaucracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n I have seen it many times.<\/p>\n Let’s start an association:<\/p>\n to improve the performance of X,<\/p>\n to increase the awareness of Y,<\/p>\n to teach the practice of Z, or<\/p>\n some such noble task.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n People form the association, they perform the work, they accomplish the goal, i.e., they succeed. Now what?<\/p>\n One next step is to dissolve<\/em> the association. It is no longer needed as the reason for its existence is gone.<\/p>\n Another next step is to continue the association and grow it. Collect dues; establish rules of membership; lobby the legislature, and go big time. In other words, create a bureaucracy<\/em>. The bureaucracy appeals to the ego. I mean, I could be the founder and president of a 10,000-member association that I started with three friends at my kitchen table. Wow! Wouldn’t that be a nice thing to have said at my funeral?<\/p>\n Of course the bureaucracy could be bloated, wasteful, corrupt, and generally be a big waste of time.<\/p>\n Choices, choices, choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips The success of many endeavors should lead to dissolving the endeavor. It is unfortunate, however, that the result is often bureaucracy. I have seen it many times. Let’s start an association: to improve the performance of X, to increase the awareness of Y, to teach the practice of Z, or some such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,21,51,48],"tags":[171,143,173,170],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-change","category-choose","category-general-systems-thinking","tag-adapting","tag-change","tag-choose","tag-general-systems-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}