Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy |
| author | Mark Schwartz |
| ISBN-10 | 1-950-50815-3 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-950-50815-0 |
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| date | 2020-Nov-12 |
Everybody hates bureaucracy, right? It makes everything complicated and slow. So why do we have it anyway? In my opinion that is the real thing you will learn from this book: what bureaucracy actually is supposed to do, why we have and need it. Once you understand this, you can find ways to make it more bearable, less of a hindrance and time waster. That's the other thing Schwartz describes in his book, ways to make bureaucracy more lean.
The writing style of this book needs getting used to. It is chatty, trying (and in my opinion failing) to be funny and full of (sometimes not helpful) footnotes.
Does it make bureaucracy go away? No. Does it help to ease the burden of bureaucracy? Not directly. But it does give you some example tactics you might use in trying to change some bureaucracy in your sphere of influence to make it less troublesome.
