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If there’s one enduring lesson from my career, it’s this: Bureaucracy is the enemy of innovation. It stifles creativity, clogs decision-making and traps bold ideas in endless loops of approvals. Bureaucracy wasn’t designed to foster progress — it was built to maintain control.
During the Industrial Revolution, it provided organizations with the structure and predictability needed to scale factories and manage vast workforces. At the time, hierarchies and approval systems were revolutionary. But now? They’ve become chains holding us back.
Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini articulated this perfectly in their book Humanocracy: “Bureaucracy was not invented to foster human creativity but to
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