Obliterate Bureaucracy to Speed Up Improvements by 20 Times - by Donald Mitchell

Obliterate Bureaucracy to Speed Up Improvements by 20 Times - by Donald Mitchell: "LIKE RUNNING A MARATHON WEARING COMBAT BOOTS: Bureaucracy-Officialism, Red Tape, and Proliferation

Organizations usually see themselves as smoothly coordinated operations, even when they are not. A baseball analogy can help us see the point. Early in the 20th century, the Chicago Cubs team members Joe Tinkers, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance were baseball's most celebrated double-play combination. Joe Tinkers would scoop up the ball at shortstop and wing it to Evers covering second base. Evers would touch the bag or tag the runner sliding towards him, then snap the ball to Frank Chance on first before the batter arrived at the bag. 'Tinkers to Evers to Chance' became part of American folk idiom."