Since English is not my primary language could you translate

Since English is not my primary language, could you translate this into more detail? My textbook (Managing the Public Sector) said, \"presidents wanting to be effective have increasingly circumvented large bureaucracies either by using their own staff or by setting up new agencies.\" From my understanding, president tends to choose either of the choices so that the bureaucracies become too big to make agencies work and take enormous time to deal with an issue. Am I correct? If so, why the bureaucracies do not become large if the president chooses either of the choices? For me, it seemed the bureaucracies still become big since those agencies work under the bureaucracy.

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Explanation: The given statement \"presidents wanting to be effective have increasingly circumvented large bureaucracies either by using their own staff or by setting up new agencies.” points to the tension that exists between the executives appointed by the elected officials and the government employees they are supposed to lead. The government employees together constitutes a bureaucracy. Because of strong ties to traditional policies and to over-indulge in conventional ways of functioning, the bureaucrats and agencies become resistant to change. The new policies, new systems that a new president would want to create, the bureaucrats become a barrier for the officials in their endeavour to implement change. Another reason for the tension between the two entities is that the agency members tend to form alliances with legislative sub-committees and other interests group.

In order to remain and wanting to be effective, presidents circumvent the large bureaucracies by using their own staff or by establishing new agencies. Circumvent means to find a way around or bypass the members of the bureaucracy who creates trouble or obstacle in the functioning of the president’s office. This is done in order to convert a tradition-ridden bureaucracy into a system where information is provided smoothly and decision making is quick.