The Bureaucracy Club is an organization of bureaucrats, by bureaucrats, for bureaucrats. The Bureaucracy Club is dedicated to the propagation, study, maintenance, enhancement, documentation, and optimization of bureaucracies and bureaucrats. After many years of bureaucratic quietude, The Bureaucracy Club is rousing itself to accept new applications for membership. LACK OF DETAILS is available at the […]
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Bragg the bureaucrats
Ta-Nehisi Coates quotes from the memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, about Braxton Bragg, a military officer who took bureaucracy to great depths: Bragg was a remarkably intelligent and well-informed man, professionally and otherwise. He was also thoroughly upright. But he was possessed of an irascible temper, and was naturally disputatious. A man of the […]
Words newly banished in Britain
Britain’s Local Government Association has issued its new (2010) list of “250 words the public sector shouldn’t use.” The Association’s announcement mentions a few highlights from the list: Trialogue Wellderly Goldfish bowl facilitated conversation Tonality Webinar Under-capacitated Clienting