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adhocracy

British  
/ ædˈhɒkrəsɪ /

noun

  1. management that responds to urgent problems rather than planning to avoid them

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Richard Haass, the head of the Council on Foreign Relations, noted last summer that Franklin D. Roosevelt also ran the White House as what Haass dubbed an adhocracy.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2018

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