Bureaucracy is a formal organizational
structure that enforces a hierarchy of authority and a system of
rules & regulations that control activity within an organization
e.g. the government or the military.
Due to the nature of a bureaucracy, the
scope and possibility to innovate within a bureaucracy is very
limited if not non-existent. All activities are closely monitored and
must follow predefined practices, rules, standards etc. Hence, any
innovative ideas are killed before they can flourish for the sake of
rules and policies. Creativity focuses on resourcefulness,
imagination and flexibility, bureaucracy on order, systems, certainty
and predictability. Hence, bureaucracies are not creative.
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