Bureaucracy hurts!

The most efficient system is also the simplest system.

If you are able to handle a complex system, break it down and simplify it, you will have higher chances of success.

Lay it down like you would to a five-year-old.

Majority of the employees are able to follow a simple, clear instructions with precision. How do you handle then a system that fits an organization with tens of thousands of employees? How do you navigate through a vendor registration system where your main goal is to systemize while still serving the need for emergency situations? Why do organizations (and ultimately people) like to complicate things?

I do not understand why we like to complicate things. Things could be easier. Things could be simpler.

Give Joe a responsibility. Joe is in-charge of maintenance. Let him voice out his needs. Purchasing needs to listen. Purchasing can't ask 3 vendors for quotations and undergo selection when Joe's critical equipment in a power plant is failing. The city won't have electricity. It's an emergency situation.

Joe needs to listen to purchasing. When there is no emergency, Joe's requirement needs to be met as you would with any other vendor.

There's a real gap in employees behind their desk and those who are actually performing physical critical jobs. There needs to be a bridge that brings them together.

It's frustrating and poor Joe might lose his job.

And the company will lose about USD 100K a day until the equipment is back in operation.

Do you have any solution? Share it here.