"We trained hard, but it seemed that everytime we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization."
An occasional glimpse into the workings of the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Executive (or comments on anything else that takes my fancy).
29 March 2007
Re-arranging the deckchairs
The Home Office re-organisation? The creation of a Ministry of Justice? I am reminded of the 200BC saying of Petronius Arbiter (which I use to keep pinned up on my office noticeboard):
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