Every collective human achievement is the result of a bureaucracy. Sure, individual humans can produce great creative masterpieces; but if you want to build a pyramid, put a man on the moon, invade France, or sell motor cars by the millions, in short, every activity that cannot be done by an individual has to be done by a bureacracy. You need leadership, organization, infrastructure, coordination, specilization of labor, everything that is required to get a large number of people working together to produce a final product that one person alone cannot produce.

It doesn't matter if it's an army, a government agency, a private corporation, a university, or a football team. These are all bureaucracies. Are bureaucracies inefficient? Sure they are, there's a price you pay for organization, it's called overhead, and it results from friction and entropy as in any machine with many parts. Are some bureaucracies more efficent, or more effective than others? Of course.
Good leadership can minimize the inefficiencies, but it can never eliminate them all together. Waste is the price you pay for results.

Individual human beings may realize great projects, but without an organized collective effort, they will not happen. Warriors form armies, businessmen form companies, governments form agencies. To paraphrase Robert Heinlein, working alone is for insects.