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I just wish the bureaucracy in so many levels of government was vulnerable to change. It seems like bureaucracies are quite resistant to change because the system fundamentally lacks a structure for improving itself. It reminds me of how GM's poor management style and lack of respect for its workers led to labor strikes and entire facility shutdowns. Eventually they teamed up with Toyota to form a new facility [1] that used Toyota's style of continuous improvement. They managed to increase production while making workers happier to work there, in part because management listened to employees at all levels and empowered them with the tools to directly influence change. A worker thought a part could be made faster a different way? Perfect, just show a team leader and send it up the chain. Constant improvements were being rolled out and it was the respect for the individual's capacity to think that drove the improvement IMO.

I wish we had levels of government that worked the same way. Dedicated pathways for suggesting, researching, and implementing organization-wide improvements that can change everything, even the structure of the organization itself. Seeing our lack of reasonable governance just frustrates me.

Why does everyone keep calling this "new"? I've seen it published in articles seemingly everywhere within the past few days. It's not a new technology; Boeing was prototyping this in their fleet several years ago[1].