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Bureaucrats are needed to get things done in larger organizations, but not all of them are working for the benefit of their organizations. Some pervert the system to avoid all blame for anything going wrong, thus losing sight of the reasons for them being in their position. They seem to believe that things will always go wrong. Because they do not appear to understand the difference between the possibility of things going wrong and the likelihood of that happening, they act as though things definitely will go wrong and do not want to be blamed for such happenings. A 'blocking-bureaucrat' tries to prevent anything getting approved, thus eliminating the possibility of it going wrong. They also ensure that any investigation of a task that does finally get approved and then gets into trouble cannot be blamed on them. They cost the organization huge amounts of money and excess time to completion. They also destroy the morale of many that have to deal with them. From both the outside, where I dealt with government bureaucracies while performing contract work for them, and later as an employee of a government agency that was often brilliant on how well it did research, I did meet up with those who tried to block approval. In spite of others who were often trying hard to get contracts started in an efficient and timely fashion, these blocking-bureaucrats did make things difficult for those who had to deal with them. No one above them seemed to understand what was going on. Those who had to work with them to get work started were often badly affected by their machinations. This wee book offers some advice on finding such blocking bureaucrats and eliminating their damaging effects to both their organizations and society in general. In times of financial stress and chaos, there is no room for them in business or government of any sort. Removing them should make organizations both more efficient and effective - but also help get things done more quickly.

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Jesuis Laplume is the nom de plume of Jim H. White, when I write on the coming together of Science and the Philosophy. I was trained as a scientist in an Engineering faculty and spent forty years helping to move new Science into practice, sometimes adding bits to that Science where it was needed. I usually take a physical System Science role during that process, working with those who were experts in the details, but assuming the role of the one who looked at the bigger picture and then tried to find the best questions to ask. I found, with few exceptions, that few present experts liked to be told that the Science had changed enough that they were going to have to change their ways. Sometimes their responses were vitriolic in nature. I worked in eight different fields of Science and Engineering and met many of the best in their fields. These were uniformly humble and had a wry sense of humor. They learned, with each success, that there was a great deal more to be learned, but could live with that. After I retired, I started studying spiritual matters, focusing upon spirituality, which is within the Philosophy of Religions. I joined a local group, still in operation more than 17 years later, called The Forum on Faith and Science, and studied many more of the books, videos and other communications from the authors studied. This has been a long-standing habit of mine. After a string of five heart attacks, over a short span of 3 1/2 years, plus the second of two out-of-body experiences, I took my skeptical attitude up a notch or two and have learned a fair bit about what we do not know, in both Science and the Philosophy side of what the Ancient Greeks suggested were two sides of the one coin of all knowledge. I also saw that their warning, that Philosophy could not be done using the traditional tools of Science, was a legitimate one. While I am a great fan of Science, I can now see that it has many limitations. No tool should be used outside of its range of usefulness and Science-based tools cannot normally be used in Philosophy. Quite a number of the books that the Forum studied were by those in Science, or Philosophy, who were using tools where they were not useful for the chores at hand. This is never a good situation. On both sides, however, a humble application of system-level investigation is useful!

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