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Freeing Bureaucrats to Succeed

UCL Uncovering Politics

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Do We Do It Too Much?

Top down control of bureaucrats, you argue, is a problem. We do it too much; why? Cause it's the levers we have, in my view. So organizations themselves become stupider as a result of kind of these top down controls. And so, you know, we end up with this problem. It's a little bit like a goldilock situation right? The porridge could be too hot or cold, but if Goldilocks had some kind of disability she would respond to the heat and Porridge would not. Ahis basically saying that agency acts over an indepedent corruption because we leave on the table too much control. Whereas we don't see what

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