[squigz]

How do you determine what amount of bureaucracy is acceptable to do?

[jpeloquin]

Prioritize work by ROI and alignment with the institution's mission, communicate the prioritization to relevant decision-makers in your management chain, and actually follow through on it unless coerced otherwise.

Edit: There's no guarantee this will work out positively—nothing is guaranteed—but it's worth considering if the alternative is giving up / changing careers.

[chii]

just enough to get yelled at, but not enough to get fired. Be an annoyance to deal with, by towing the line.

[squigz]

Seems like a reasonable metric that isn't based on simple gut reactions to anything.