Quotations On Change and Reorganization
A colleague sent me this quote today with the comment that “it didn’t start with Dilbert.” The hilarious thing is that I have a Dilbert coffee mug on my desk with this quote on it “Change – What We Do To Give The Illusion Of Progress.”
Now we discover the following quote dating back to AD 66:
“We trained hard, but it seemed every time 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.”
From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius
Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
It’s nice to note the consistency with which insanity is practiced throughout human history!
