Bureaucratic
adjective
Related to a system controlling or managing a large organization or government.
The bureaucratic processes in the company slowed down the project.
Often appears as...
- bureaucratic process
- bureaucratic system
adjective
Involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause delay.
He had to go through a lot of bureaucratic red tape to get his visa.
Often appears as...
- bureaucratic red tape
- bureaucratic delay
adjective
Related to a system controlling or managing a large organization or government.
The bureaucratic processes in the company slowed down the project.
Often appears as...
- bureaucratic process
- bureaucratic system
adjective
Involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause delay.
He had to go through a lot of bureaucratic red tape to get his visa.
Often appears as...
- bureaucratic red tape
- bureaucratic delay
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Impersonality
Indicates an environment where rules override personal input, usually perceived negatively.
Employees felt that the bureaucratic structure dehumanized their work.
Pro Tip 2/3Overcomplexity
Suggests a tendency for unnecessary complexity and details that may be overwhelming.
The new bureaucratic policy added three more steps to the approval process.
Pro Tip 3/3Inefficiency
Often related to slow or hindered progress due to excessive regulations.
Her idea was great, but the bureaucratic system blocked its quick implementation.
Pro Tip 1/3Impersonality
Indicates an environment where rules override personal input, usually perceived negatively.
Employees felt that the bureaucratic structure dehumanized their work.
Pro Tip 2/3Overcomplexity
Suggests a tendency for unnecessary complexity and details that may be overwhelming.
The new bureaucratic policy added three more steps to the approval process.
Pro Tip 3/3Inefficiency
Often related to slow or hindered progress due to excessive regulations.
Her idea was great, but the bureaucratic system blocked its quick implementation.
Pro Tip 1/3Impersonality
Indicates an environment where rules override personal input, usually perceived negatively.
Employees felt that the bureaucratic structure dehumanized their work.
Pro Tip 2/3Overcomplexity
Suggests a tendency for unnecessary complexity and details that may be overwhelming.
The new bureaucratic policy added three more steps to the approval process.
Pro Tip 3/3Inefficiency
Often related to slow or hindered progress due to excessive regulations.
Her idea was great, but the bureaucratic system blocked its quick implementation.
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Who owns the "wilderness"...
over multiple government departments. Straightforward tasks like building roads and hiring personnel required inefficient bureaucratic maneuvering. None of the departments had set rules for conduct in the park, so hunters killed park wildlife, cattle overgrazed fields, and visitors vandalized landmarks.
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Beth Noveck: Demand a...
Can you imagine, in the bureaucratic world of yesteryear, getting anything done in a four-month period of time? You can barely fill out the forms in that amount of time, let alone generate real, palpable innovations that improve people's lives. And I want to be clear to mention that this open government
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The quest for the...
They worked with us and tried to keep any bureaucratic delays down to the smallest amount possible. And I think that's what's going to be important here, is we have to look at every single step and say, "Is it critical?" But you do need to answer a lot of these questions.
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Vinay Venkatraman:...
or your service doesn't have to go through a huge bureaucratic system to get it fixed. It also affords us cheap fabrication, which is fantastic, so it means that you can do a lot more with it. And then, the most important thing is, it gives us large math for low cost.
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Demand a more...
announced in the competition can you imagine in the bureaucratic world of yesteryear getting anything done in a four-month period of time you can barely fill out the forms in that amount of time let alone generate real palpable innovations that improve people's lives
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4 Lessons in Creativity...
I admired his passionate obstinacy, his determination to push through all the bureaucratic red tape to get to work, and he laughed, and he said, "I'm stubborn, but I think what's more important is my passionate optimism."
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Howard Rheingold:...
can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor the incentives of the marketplace as we've known them. Google enriches itself by enriching thousands of bloggers through AdSense.
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The creative power of...
within a very bureaucratic to take charge, to empower people to run with an idea and build a community of support around that and do it regardless of whether or not you had official support.
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Elizabeth Zion: The need...
We need governments to accelerate reunification applications, and we need them to address the bureaucratic and political barriers to reunification for families all over the world.
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Adam Nicolson: The King...
and they arranged the six committees in the most careful bureaucratic way and each of these committees given very precise 14 precise instructions written
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Who owns the "wilderness"...
over multiple government departments. Straightforward tasks like building roads and hiring personnel required inefficient bureaucratic maneuvering. None of the departments had set rules for conduct in the park, so hunters killed park wildlife, cattle overgrazed fields, and visitors vandalized landmarks.
Video examples
Beth Noveck: Demand a...
Can you imagine, in the bureaucratic world of yesteryear, getting anything done in a four-month period of time? You can barely fill out the forms in that amount of time, let alone generate real, palpable innovations that improve people's lives. And I want to be clear to mention that this open government
Video examples
The quest for the...
They worked with us and tried to keep any bureaucratic delays down to the smallest amount possible. And I think that's what's going to be important here, is we have to look at every single step and say, "Is it critical?" But you do need to answer a lot of these questions.
Video examples
Vinay Venkatraman:...
or your service doesn't have to go through a huge bureaucratic system to get it fixed. It also affords us cheap fabrication, which is fantastic, so it means that you can do a lot more with it. And then, the most important thing is, it gives us large math for low cost.
Video examples
Demand a more...
announced in the competition can you imagine in the bureaucratic world of yesteryear getting anything done in a four-month period of time you can barely fill out the forms in that amount of time let alone generate real palpable innovations that improve people's lives
Video examples
4 Lessons in Creativity...
I admired his passionate obstinacy, his determination to push through all the bureaucratic red tape to get to work, and he laughed, and he said, "I'm stubborn, but I think what's more important is my passionate optimism."
Video examples
Howard Rheingold:...
can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor the incentives of the marketplace as we've known them. Google enriches itself by enriching thousands of bloggers through AdSense.
Video examples
The creative power of...
within a very bureaucratic to take charge, to empower people to run with an idea and build a community of support around that and do it regardless of whether or not you had official support.
Video examples
Elizabeth Zion: The need...
We need governments to accelerate reunification applications, and we need them to address the bureaucratic and political barriers to reunification for families all over the world.
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Adam Nicolson: The King...
and they arranged the six committees in the most careful bureaucratic way and each of these committees given very precise 14 precise instructions written
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Jed S. Rakoff
American Judge
I've never been impressed with bureaucratic tradition. I don't like it when the parties come to me and say, 'This is the way that it's always done, judge.' I never found anything in the oath I took or the statutes I was asked to look at that said, 'Judge, stop thinking, because this is the way it was done before.
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David Chipperfield
British Architect
I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.
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Mitt Romney
American Politician
I love cars; I like the idea of manufacturing something, having a product, a hard product to sell and promote, but as time went on, I recognized that car companies are so bureaucratic and so ossified that it would take forever to work your way up. And so I went into consulting.
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Ralph Hall
American Politician
As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.
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Scott Cook
American Businessman
If you give the boss all the decision-making power, they see the world through their eyes. The big innovations are generally such a shift that they won't see it. For a long time, it looked like it was just inevitable that you would get slow and bureaucratic.
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Sam Taylor-Johnson
English Director
My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
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Tom Peters
American Businessman
We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
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Max Weber
German Economist
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.
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Jay Inslee
American Politician
Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals.
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Marshall McLuhan
Canadian Sociologist
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
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Jed S. Rakoff
American Judge
I've never been impressed with bureaucratic tradition. I don't like it when the parties come to me and say, 'This is the way that it's always done, judge.' I never found anything in the oath I took or the statutes I was asked to look at that said, 'Judge, stop thinking, because this is the way it was done before.
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David Chipperfield
British Architect
I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.
Quote examples
Mitt Romney
American Politician
I love cars; I like the idea of manufacturing something, having a product, a hard product to sell and promote, but as time went on, I recognized that car companies are so bureaucratic and so ossified that it would take forever to work your way up. And so I went into consulting.
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Ralph Hall
American Politician
As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.
Quote examples
Scott Cook
American Businessman
If you give the boss all the decision-making power, they see the world through their eyes. The big innovations are generally such a shift that they won't see it. For a long time, it looked like it was just inevitable that you would get slow and bureaucratic.
Quote examples
Sam Taylor-Johnson
English Director
My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
Quote examples
Tom Peters
American Businessman
We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
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Max Weber
German Economist
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.
Quote examples
Jay Inslee
American Politician
Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals.
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Marshall McLuhan
Canadian Sociologist
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
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