Bureaucratic creativity...
“How can forward-thinking people stay creative and productive within highly bureaucratic organizations?” Joe Noland is a retired International Leader of The Salvation Army. His blog slightly irregular is one that I like to pop in and out of. He seems to be starting a series of posts where he hopes to tackle the question “What can be done to change the establishment?” with the sub-plot “How can forward-thinking people stay creative and productive within highly bureaucratic organizations?” Here is the context through which he hopes to answer these questions... As a young Divisional Secretary (Doris L.O.M. Secretary), we had had it up to here with the establishment, made an appointment with the Chief Secretary and requested a return to Corps work. We were even so brash as to ask for one community in particular, Santa Rosa, California, for several reasons: There was no band and songsters and population studies projected phenomenal growth for the future. We desperately wanted to be the Arm...