One of the linked articles states that to make extraordinary progress, one needs to hire “Great connected people” and give them the freedom and finances to work on their passion, while removing the bureaucratic obstacles. It’s not quite the Steve Jobs theory, but close. The same article also describes, time and again, how the results were achieved by either subverting or bypassing the existing bureaucracy. There is no way to reform it, there is no point in trying. The elected government is no better: these are people who optimize electability, not progress. The best one can do in absence of a severe crisis, when existing bureaucratic rules can be suspended, is to reduce the barriers for the great people wanting to do great things to work outside the existing bureaucracy. Elon Musk could not have achieve what he has in land- and space-transportation in, say, medicine, if his goal was to “cure cancer” or something, instead of going to Mars. Mostly because he would be thwarted at every step by the well-meaning yet stifling regulations.
Avoid the bureaucracy, don’t try to reform it, if you want to get anything done.
One of the linked articles states that to make extraordinary progress, one needs to hire “Great connected people” and give them the freedom and finances to work on their passion, while removing the bureaucratic obstacles. It’s not quite the Steve Jobs theory, but close. The same article also describes, time and again, how the results were achieved by either subverting or bypassing the existing bureaucracy. There is no way to reform it, there is no point in trying. The elected government is no better: these are people who optimize electability, not progress. The best one can do in absence of a severe crisis, when existing bureaucratic rules can be suspended, is to reduce the barriers for the great people wanting to do great things to work outside the existing bureaucracy. Elon Musk could not have achieve what he has in land- and space-transportation in, say, medicine, if his goal was to “cure cancer” or something, instead of going to Mars. Mostly because he would be thwarted at every step by the well-meaning yet stifling regulations.
Avoid the bureaucracy, don’t try to reform it, if you want to get anything done.