Leadership Paradigms for Remote Agile Development: How To Lead Your Team Remotely

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8. Bureaucracy

Benjamin Jakobus¹  , Pedro Henrique Lobato Sena² and Claudio Souza³

(1)

Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

(2)

Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil

(3)

Westport, CT, USA

 

Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

— Alan Keyes

To understand how profoundly bureaucrats shaped modern human existence, we need to travel back in time to the end of the last ice age (11,000 B.C.), which saw the ...