Bureaucracy

When an organization gets big enough, its focus changes from providing for a customer to maintaining control of it’s employees. This leads to rules for every situation including contradictory rules with loopholes. The organization then hires employees that are taught to follow and enforce the rules as a higher priority than problem solving and accomplishing anything.

There are consequences of running a bureaucratic organization. When a serious problem is brought to the attention of the organization and it’s leadership. The solution is therefore, create more rules to deal with the problem employees. Which only causes more contradiction and confusion.

If you are looking to get something done within a bureaucracy, manipulate the system by using its own contradictions and loopholes to get the thing done. Just make sure you don’t break any of the rules that people are currently paying attention to.