The Daily Blog Open Mic – 24th April 2023
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog, 3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.
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Here is something to chew over – bit of sweet and sour but sure to please the educated palate.
The Fashion for Generic Management is Not Working.
by Brian Easton April 06, 2023
The public service is suffering from the downgrading of the role of professionals, experts and those at the workface with the public.
There is a management fashion that believes that by imposing layers of generic managers, public spending will become more efficient because they will control the professionals, who cannot be trusted. It is true that professionals often have objectives which are dismissive of fiscal considerations – objectives like the welfare of those they are working for – and that some cannot be trusted not to act in their commercial interests.
https://www.pundit.co.nz/content/the-fashion-for-generic-management-is-not-working
Interesting Chinese born author. Ghao Xingjian.
“With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.”
― Gao Xingjian
“Young man, nature is not frightening, it’s people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he’s capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.”
― Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain