adhocracy
IPA: ædhˈɑkrʌsi
noun
- (business, organizational theory) An organizational system designed to be flexible and responsive to the needs of the moment rather than excessively bureaucratic.
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Examples of "adhocracy" in Sentences
- The NWG was an adhocracy of intensely creative, sleep-deprived, idiosyncratic, well-meaning computer geniuses.
- The future of government is to provide tools for empowerment, not to sit back and hope that laissez-faire adhocracy will suffice.
- 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.
- Bureaucracy gets pushed aside by so-called "adhocracy," executive power/one-man shows flourish, with institutional checks and balances flouted.
- This, then, is the focus, as it were, of Obama's nascent doctrine, and the emerging international adhocracy on Libya, a blend of morality and pragmatism.
- Western leaders, with some Arab leaders involved as well, had cobbled together a new adhocracy to counter, if not remove, a notorious monster attacking his people and threatening to send the "Arab spring" back into bloody winter.
- In that alone, she says that the UN under Ban's leadership has seen "decline over a broad scale - from small things to more important" … "no more any congruity between responsibility and authority" … and calls today's UN an "adhocracy" in which "disintegrated and ill thought through
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