I've worked in government, late startup and corporate roles. There isn't anything fundamentally broken about government. The difference is operate vs. build.
Government is usually optimized around operational activity, and it usually does so very well from the perspective of how the organization is designed. Things get weird because priorities are driven by external mandate. DMV issues licenses, taxes are collected, social services are delivered. The downside of scaled operations is that changes are difficult and expensive. The exception is when there is growth -- the government is good at borrowing money and good at building stuff.
Large corporations aren't that much different. If anything, the average medium/large corporation has fewer controls and is less competent at a given task that a .gov organization would be, but delivers each marginal task at a lower cost and less red tape. (aka compliance requirements)
Startups are different. They are built to build and tend to do the minimum viable activity and are usually a big mess operationally.
Government is usually optimized around operational activity, and it usually does so very well from the perspective of how the organization is designed. Things get weird because priorities are driven by external mandate. DMV issues licenses, taxes are collected, social services are delivered. The downside of scaled operations is that changes are difficult and expensive. The exception is when there is growth -- the government is good at borrowing money and good at building stuff.
Large corporations aren't that much different. If anything, the average medium/large corporation has fewer controls and is less competent at a given task that a .gov organization would be, but delivers each marginal task at a lower cost and less red tape. (aka compliance requirements)
Startups are different. They are built to build and tend to do the minimum viable activity and are usually a big mess operationally.