Bureaucratic top-down systems are necessarily ordered by fixed rules and cannot use contextual knowledge—like Polanyi's image of one person dictating chess moves to a whole team without looking at the board—whereas the right approach is 'creativity within discipline' that lets individuals exploit unique on-the-ground opportunities.
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“create an environment of creativity within discipline... so that individuals can take advantage of the unique opportunities that they're confronted with and I don't see how it is that bureaucratic systems enable us to be able to do that”
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