Adrian Stott wrote: > > A government agency will thus usually act like a government agency, > i.e. it will cover its ass, and make few waves. Any other output will > be of secondary importance and produced (if at all) inefficiently. > > Adrian I disagree government agencies are there to further the careers of those employed in them. This is best done by growing larger and employing more people. Every time you can increase the size of a department by about ten you can justify splitting it in two (in the name of good management of course) and getting promotion to look after the two departments. > Try to fix e.g. EA? Think "sow's ear" > EA is what happens as a result of merging departments as a quick way of achieving above.
Paul
