The problem with bureaucracy is that it often gives comfort to those who have been in the system for a long time yet no longer have the desire to affect change and quickly burns out the young and passionate people it should be heralding. There is no quick fix to this problem. It seems to be engrained in most large-scale organizations. I see it where I work, where I used to work, and in places I associate with. As an employee all you can do is find your piece of happiness and do what you can without raising the hackles of those who no longer have that same level of passion or unaligned dedication that you do.
I say unaligned, because people will over time shoulder the baggage of allegiances and agendas. Sadly, the system forces us into these things and as a result we may become more beholden to these than to our own nascent understanding of why we started doing the work we do.