Re: Comprehensive Performance Assessments

[Roger Key <phaedo@ntlworld.com>]

Hi Bob

Jo Moreium the most resistent and persistent of all known elements. 
Steve Byersium the most transmogrifying of all known elements.  Looks 
like one thing on a Sunday morning by Monday evening looks completely 
different and no one notices, especially his shadow.  Thus we can see 
from observation that the entity is not the densest, the shadow cast 
by the entity is denser.  When we look at this in a relative manner 
rather than absolute we realise that  Administratium Atomic Number 
301, whist being very dense appears to be Helium compared to 
Administratshadiowium Atomic Number 301i  That square root of minus 1 
makes all the difference!

On a more serious note.  Why cannot they see?  Dunno.  Perhaps as the 
saying / song suggests - there are non so blind as those that will 
not see.  Or it may be a matter of cognition.  Until we have a 
definition for something, we can make the distinction, we cannot 
comprehend the thing.  If the only small pet animal you knew was 
Canis familiaris - the domestic dog - and Felix domesticus - the 
domestic cat walked past you would not see cat but a dog.  It would 
only be through time that you could build a distinction that is cat 
and thus see cats.  Think about it.  The only language we have to 
communicate with is that of our cognition.  We - due to quirk of fate 
- are born into a Northern European culture (as are North Americans, 
Austrailians etc in the main)  OUr culture supplies us with a number 
of distinctions which allows us to determine the difference between 
things that matter to us.  Un like an Innuit we probably cannot tell 
the difference between X numbers of types of snow and ice.  We know 
black ice - driving, pond ice - skating, ice cubes - drinking.  Sleet 
- miserable, powder snow - skiing and snowboarding etc.  So in 
relation t the way organisations work we have a cultural set of 
distinctions from which we can work.  Now if that set does not 
include a systemic way of thinking - which it appears not to in the 
main and the administration of the day is looking to cause and 
effect, post Cartesian thinking we have the job of describing to them 
something that they should be doing but the words we have that they 
will understand are the words they use to describe what they are 
doing.  Example describe a cat to someone who only knows dog.  A cat 
is like a dog but it has retractable claws (unless it is a cheetah), 
it is an obligate carnivore not an omnivore and it cannot bark.  Heyt 
that is a dog, you are just talking semantics.  It is not that they 
will not see it is that they cannot see and our role is to help them 
open their eyes - which they may not want to do.

I was listening to the radio the other day - Any questions Radio 4 - 
and there was a question about the funding for the NHS, 
Administratshadiowium responded in two rather wonderful ways.

1.  The UK is the only country that has a wholly state funded health 
service there fore it must be wrong.  (Post hoc ergo procto hoc?)
2.  It is a FACT that competition always makes things better

So guys we have been wrong all along.  Theory is no substitute for 
copying others and CI and co-operation are no match for a good dose 
of agressive competition.

R

>Roger
>
>Good to hear from you
>
>Ah I can always rely on you to hit the pig on the head!, I must admit to
>getting to the end of my patients with the UK Civil Service who drive this
>nonsense.
>These people are supposed to be intelligent people - see what happens to an
>application to join from Joe Soap! But time after time they miss the mark by
>a mile and adopt collective Group Think. If something isn't working we must
>try harder rather than try different. Isn't there something about if you are
>in a hole stop digging, this lot just call up a JCB!
>
>Why are they so closed to new ideas? What is is about their mindset that
>stops them seeing what appears to us to be so obvious? Are we missing a
>trick here to try and get them on side.
>
>Intertia, it appears to be what this government is made of, it is like some
>undiscovered element - Administratium Atomic Number 301, the densest of all
>known elements!
>
>
>Bob
>
>
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	Roger.

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