what is the future of bureaucracy?
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Well, our current bureaucracy is still alive and functioning poorly.  For the future, I'm guessing it will continue to live and grow bigger and more inefficient.  There will come a point in the future where it's just too unwieldy to do much of anything but by that time, I think the US will have other problems to worry about.
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Political, social and cultural change is inevitable. With the current state of affairs, I expect our country to gradually slide into a third world type existence and possibly loose parts of the southwest to Mexico or an independent Latino nation (as intended by some of the immigration protesters). \n\nAn electromagnetic pulse, a nuclear detonation in Washington DC, a major disruption of oil supplies or a radical Democrat and and completely democratically controlled legislative branch (just kidding!) would most likely spell the end for our society as we know it.\n\nNothing is forever.
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Are you another kid trying to have your homework done by other people.  What do you think?  If you have a bunch of lazy people working in an organization... what do you think is going to happen?  If you have visionaries and leaders... then what do you think is going to happen to the organization?   Find any successful organization out there... and you'll find what kind of individuals?
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Oh, I hope not!  I think we need to be able to "get away" from whatever government dominates, or it will come to dominate every facet of our lives.  Both George Orwell's "1984," (which was written in 1948, as I recall), and "Brave New World," and lots of other science fiction have made the point that a world-wide country is too much power too centralized.  It will not make way for differences that humans need to have to function.  \n\nThe big government concept is uniformity; the politics of scale.  That is a necessary part of doing things on a big scale, and why no more than absolutely necessary should be done by the federal government.  The smaller the unit of government, the bigger the opportunity to respond to real-world circumstances.  A neighborhood can get things done with only occasional assistance from a city government, which seldom needs to draw on the resources of the entire county, state, region.  Response to a major disaster takes a well-coordinated effort across state lines.  Even there, who has done the better job in Katrina response: the Red Cross and the rest of the private foundations, or the federal government?  I rest my case.
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Beyond Bureaucracy:\nThe Development Agenda\nMaking it to the 21st Century\ndepends on the participation of everyone \nand the re-creation of our major institutions\nan Interview with David C. Korten, by Alan AtKisson\nOne of the articles in Making It Happen (IC#28)\nSpring 1991, Page 26\nCopyright (c)1991, 1996 by Context Institute | To order this issue ...\n\n\nIf your interest is in "making it happen" - participating in the transformation of our societies to a more humane and sustainable way of life - there is one book you simply must read: David Korten's Getting to the 21st Century: Voluntary Action and the Global Agenda. The distillation of nearly three decades of research and field experience, Korten's book is both tightly focused (on the primacy of non-governmental organizations and voluntary action in creating a better world) and expansive (his analysis weaves together such diverse elements as the environment, global economy, governance institutions, and the transformation of consciousness).\n\nBut while Korten's agenda is radical in the truest sense, his roots are decidedly mainstream - M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business; faculty positions at Harvard, the Asian Institute of Management, and other institutions; on staff at the Ford Foundation; and consultant to the US Agency for International Development [AID]. And his message - despite its challenge to the legitimacy of some of the world's most entrenched bureaucracies - is being heard.\n\nKorten is now Founder and President of the People-Centered Development Forum, "a voluntary organization ... to encourage and support the definition and pursuit of a people-centered development vision as a global citizens' movement." We are pleased to announce that he is also the newest contributing editor to IN CONTEXT. In this lengthy and wide-ranging interview, he traces the development of his thinking and sketches out the critical elements of an action agenda for getting to the 21st Century. His book is available from Kumarian Press, 630 Oakwood Ave., Suite 119, West Hartford, CT 06110 ($19.95 postpaid).\n\nAlan: Development has, in the West at least, been considered too big for anyone but government to tackle. But in your book, you argue persuasively that such thinking is inherently flawed - and that, in fact, it leads to disaster.\n\nDavid: Right. We have to think of development as a people's movement, not as a government-funded project. Development issues relate to values and relationships - which you cannot buy with government funding.\n\nThat's a trap we've gotten into - we think government can correct these things for us. But we cannot expect our "leaders" - in quotes - to provide the necessary leadership. What we see now demonstrated is quite the opposite - our current leadership is taking us very skillfully and powerfully in exactly the wrong direction with great intent.\n\nAlan: How did you come to these conclusions, and move from large institutional settings such as USAID to developing something like the People-Centered Development Forum? What was the evolutionary pathway?\n\nDavid: My start in the international development business was actually in business management and management education. The shift began when I was the academic director of INCAE, the Central American management institute. We were studying the family planning programs of El Salvador and Nicaragua, and one of the critical influences on my thinking was seeing how the structures of those systems thwarted any effort to both generate client demand and be responsive to it. The nature of bureaucratic organizations made such responsiveness impossible.\n\nSo, once back in the US, I began working with people from Third World management institutes and the heads of national family planning programs in a major effort to improve management in these programs. Some of us reached the conclusion that one of the important f
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Yes I believe it will. Just look at the advances in computers over the last 50 years. 50 years from now, I think they (computers) will be able to think on their own.
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That depends.  In this scenario, is the future set in stone (aka fate) or do we have a role in what happens in the future?
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Should be..but even if we had adopted a new government...if people in the position will stay the way they used to, probably we'll remain the same...We are yearning for better. What president and all the government officials are promising to us, never happened in reality. I don't want to expect too much from this country. Everything should be in a new form by now but seeing it with my own eyes, as much as possible I want to be realistic--and this is the reality.
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America no longer has a balanced government.  We have a unitary executive who modifies laws at will via signing statements and bizarre interpretations.  The real test will be to see what happens in 2008.
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Since the country has grown in terms of population, technology, economy, military, etc. over the years, the bureaucracy has had to expand proportionally. However, it definitely could be tightened up among certain agencies which would most likely benefit the overally running of the nation.
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who ever is in charge will become a totalitarian GOD. Heads will roll.One world governemnt?.. there isn't a government in exsistance that can handle their own country let alont all countries.. The day we have a one world gov.. there'll be a civil war, we're almost there now
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In the future you will read the answers to this question.
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In the future...\n\nthe strong will define what democracy is.
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I havent been studying politics but i think: Bureauracracy is about the way an organistion conducts its operations through different departments and agencies by usings it's strict rules to controle the operation. The disadvantage of bureaucracy is time consuming, somtime the officials ends up with wrong results due to its compexity. The advantages of bureacracy is everyone knows what to do and its often used on the military types of organisations. US government can be a good example.
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I don't know how long it will take before modernization takes place in Mumbai, with all the politics going on about small things like construction of a fly over.\nso let us wait and watch
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It only gets in the way if you ask me. I am from hurricane central so bureaucracy don't have a warm spot in my heart. When something needs to get done quickly, it only gets in the way==red tape and all..
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"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy" - Unknown