Intelligence/ USA
Re-arranging bureaucracies has long been
a favorite Washington way of pretending to make improvements. It is a handy
recourse in the absence of good ideas to make real improvement.
Revising a wiring diagram is the sort of
change that can be made visible to the outside world. It does not require
reaching consensus about significant increases or decreases in the priority
given particular programs or their budgets. It offers a basis for convincing
ourselves that the bureaucracies involved will perform better, even if the main
reasons we don’t get everything we would like to get from those bureaucracies
are to be found in the inherent, unavoidable challenges of the tasks they are
assigned to perform.
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