The Busting Bureaucracy Hackathon

As many of you are aware that traditional bureaucracy operates as "permission to act". Employees are conditioned by management to always seek permission/approval before they act. In order words, there is implied negative consent and positive consent has to be explicitly sought.
One of the approach to bust this...

Directly boost autonomy by shifting towards longer-term planning windows. Immediate, yet relatively unimportant goals (e.g. quarterly vs. year-over year targets), can drive employee action in an unproductive, and constraining manner. Dell has done a good job of this by shifting back to a private model, out of the light of...

Navigating from A to B can be a tedious affair. High traffic volumes often lead to bottlenecks and accidents that adversely impact the efficiency of transportation systems; causing delays, increased fuel expenditures, pollution, and mental stress. Consulting traffic reports and GPS maps generally offers few alternatives that bypass clogged arteries...

When I see the categories defined as the needed ‘post-bureaucratic hacks’ , I can’t help to see it’s all about people and how people interact together, or better hacking the flaws in that context and about reaching goals, or better not reaching them as efficient or effective as we should.
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