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Old 19th Sep 2005, 20:10
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Impiger
 
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If you can still remember all the old military bolleaux then you should be OK. IIP is still with us; as is the unbalanced scorecard. EFQM seems to have been put on the back burner but we're still talking 'outcomes' and 'matrix management' as well as my old favourite the 'functionally integrated but geographically separated staff' = I don't care where you are you do as I say!

We're also big on 'efficiency' but most horrendous of all is the sway that civil servants who couldn't organise, let alone fight, their way out of a soggy paper bag hold over defence policy.

Oh and the latest management speak is all about 'work - life balance' which I think is the modern version of QOL.

But all that aside its still a hoot and roar and where else do you get paid good money for flying aircraft, shooting the sh1t and turning money into memories via a bucket of beer? (well 2 out of 3 ain't bad!).
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