Saturday, July 13, 2013

Navy Grade 36 Bureaucrat offers some thoughts on Reducing Administrative Distractions

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is this guy actually in the Navy (Active Duty)? If so this is a reduction we should implement...Navy Grade 36 Bureaucrat is wasting WAY too much time and not doing his/her job.

Anonymous said...

Navy Grade 36 Bureaucrat has 44 ideas...44!! I hope that he is retired and not wasting time at work. If he is active duty I recommend reducing his internet access.

Mike Lambert said...

NG36B is active duty and has a professional reputation for ACTION. This guy gets things done. He is both a serious thinker and a persistent implementer. It's easy to criticize those who express a willingness to share ideas. Keep at it NG36B!!

Anonymous said...

I'm not active duty any more, but still work with the navy as a DoD civilian. The major issue I see with the navy, paticularly the IW community, is that leadership seem to think that getting rid of admin people would reduce admin. Nothing could me further from the truth. The admin load continues unabated, but now it is done by high dollar contractors, or by Chief Petty Officer and junior officers, at the expense of what they should be doing for the mission. It is sad to see the primary expertise of many of the CPOs is admin, and many JOs believe attention to admin is the key to success.
The other issue, which is ubiquitous, is the amount of oversight which is facilitated by the spread of IT. Commanders have a "virtual" chain of command that is all-seeing and all-knowing. This gives rise to CC CYA, in which everyone CC's their boss on every bit of email thereby gaining virtual concurrence on every action. The concept of using the IT capabilities to create "self-synchroniztion" and reduced over sight is dead and buried. Remember when we were taught the strength of the navy was "control by negation"....

Anonymous said...

I enjoy reading his blog. It's hard to believe that people would think he is wasting time by focusing on common sense approaches and innovation.

Let's continue to stifle voices like this so organizations can continue into the grayness of the mundane.

Navy Grade 36 Bureaucrat said...

1. I actually have been on leave until recently (today), so all the ideas posted were on my own time and dime. I actually care enough to want to make change, hence choosing to participate even when I could do other things. I did the same thing with the em2 maneuvers game hosted by NWDC earlier this year.

2. If my ideas and blog help at least one Junior Officer reduce his admin workload or do a better job for his sailors, then the effort has been worth it. I choose to blog in order to reach a larger audience and help as many sailors as possible.

3. Even if I did add ideas to Navy RAD at work, it would be a better use of time than smoking, checking Facebook, or the countless other distractions that I see Navy sailors waste time on every day.