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):

"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."

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