The choice between bureaucracy and adhocracy represents a common dilemma. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The need for informational flexibility can lead to adhocracy. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Bureaucracy gets pushed aside by so-called "adhocracy," executive power/one-man shows flourish, with institutional checks and balances flouted. From Wordnik.com. [Janine R. Wedel: Shadow Elite: WikiLeaks: Irresponsible or Indispensable?] Reference
The future of government is to provide tools for empowerment, not to sit back and hope that laissez-faire adhocracy will suffice. From Wordnik.com. [Government by Twitter « BuzzMachine] Reference
It was an adhocracy, as I've called it, but no single entity to ensure that U.S. dollars are well spent to help the Iraqis get on their feet. From Wordnik.com. [Following The Reconstruction Money In Iraq] Reference
He'd only hesitated for a second when Andrew asked him to be the inaugural advisor on ParasiteNet's board, and once he'd said yes, it became clear to everyone that he was endlessly fascinated by their little adhocracy and its experimental telco potential. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
The more we dug into it the more profound adhocracy appeared. From Wordnik.com. [Logic+Emotion] Reference
And that adhocracy is the organizational structure of the future. From Wordnik.com. [Logic+Emotion] Reference
Today, Wikipedia defines the characteristics of adhocracy as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Logic+Emotion] Reference
This is probably why agencies have been so slow to embrace adhocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Logic+Emotion] Reference
Understand that bureaucracy and adhocracy are at the two ends of a continuum. From Wordnik.com. [Logic+Emotion] Reference
This job market fluidity - this adhocracy - has plenty of upside for employers. From Wordnik.com. [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference
This job market fluidity — this adhocracy — has plenty of upside for employers. From Wordnik.com. [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference
People who thrive in an adhocracy are different from people who thrive in a bureaucracy. From Wordnik.com. [Logic+Emotion] Reference
It's not just entry level, or even midcareer, job hunters who are joining the adhocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference
Other factors in the change to adhocracy have been a brutal recession and a cautious recovery. From Wordnik.com. [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference
A person who functions effectively in a bureaucratic organization may be a complete failure in an adhocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Logic+Emotion] Reference
At this point you may be asking, "Why would anyone want to trade what we have now for the disruption of an adhocracy?". From Wordnik.com. [Logic+Emotion] Reference
In fact, pushback in the move from bureaucracy to adhocracy can be strongest among folks who now head discipline silos. From Wordnik.com. [Logic+Emotion] Reference
Leaving aside the merits and demerits of these "greetings," this adhocracy is unfair and Formby is acting capriciously. From Wordnik.com. [Poinography!] Reference
The Outers are the standard post-human e-democracy/adhocracy/demarchy society you see in a lot of SF in the last ten years. From Wordnik.com. [Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.] Reference
Learned proponents of adhocracy, like Alvin Toffler and Robert Waterman contended that bureaucracy was an organizational structure of the past. From Wordnik.com. [Logic+Emotion] Reference
The "miracle" of the Obama campaign, Carr believes, was how it "organized itself," through an "adhocracy self-assigned by geography and expertise.". From Wordnik.com. [MIT World: Recent Updates] Reference
By most accounts, this term "agile" refers to any approach that straddles the razor's edge between traditional top-down development and sheer adhocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Intelligent Enterprise] Reference
And as this blog has already mentioned (the adhocracy), it is far from clear that anyone has a properly-thought out strategy, even if they could persuade the others to adopt it. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
The best presentation and story about a post-scarcity “adhocracy” society I have read is James P. Hogan’s “Voyage From Yesteryear”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Review of the New Star Trek Movie:] Reference
MMORPG ‘adhocracy’ next. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Give me your 25 seconds] Reference
It’s not just entry level, or even midcareer, job hunters who are joining the adhocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference
"He said that adhocracy, according to academics, is an organization which is the opposite of a bureaucracy. From Wordnik.com. [Logic+Emotion] Reference
For many workers, an adhocracy is a comeuppance. From Wordnik.com. [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference
Planning was abandoned and replaced by adhocracy. From Wordnik.com. [TrinidadExpress Today's News] Reference
MMORPG ‘adhocracy’. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Carrier Independent SMS: Feedelix] Reference
We began exploring the concept of an adhocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Logic+Emotion] Reference
Socio-cybernetic adhocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Structured Blogging,The “Del.icio.us Lesson”, Personal Datamining and The Knowledge Commons] Reference
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