http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/11/the-rise-of-meaningless-management-speak-is-pi-in-the-sky/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:10:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/11/the-rise-of-meaningless-management-speak-is-pi-in-the-sky/#comment-45126 Claret Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:45:55 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/11/the-rise-of-meaningless-management-speak-is-pi-in-the-sky/#comment-45126 I am a State public servant who is about to retire. I can't tell you how bloody glad I will be to leave all this rubbish behind. This is all that is left of the public service nowadays - completing endless reports, formulating endless plans and strategies but not actually bothering to implement them. The production of the document is usually end product. The only break to be had from preparing these documents is when we are herded off to endless meetings - usually about the same subjects - plans, strategies, reports, KPI's etc. The current fascination with 'outcomes' and 'KPI's' has only replaced previous meaningless measurements. Anyone who has been around as long as me recognises the same 'outcomes' that we had twenty years ago - with the same high failure rates yet we keep on reproducing them under other names. The days of the steady, careful, independant and knowledgable public service are long gone. It has been replaced by constant movement, reorganisation and 'cost cutting' (this year the Christmas party has been abolished in the name of cost reductions!). I'm glad to be out of it. I am a State public servant who is about to retire. I can’t tell you how bloody glad I will be to leave all this rubbish behind. This is all that is left of the public service nowadays - completing endless reports, formulating endless plans and strategies but not actually bothering to implement them. The production of the document is usually end product. The only break to be had from preparing these documents is when we are herded off to endless meetings - usually about the same subjects - plans, strategies, reports, KPI’s etc.
The current fascination with ‘outcomes’ and ‘KPI’s’ has only replaced previous meaningless measurements. Anyone who has been around as long as me recognises the same ‘outcomes’ that we had twenty years ago - with the same high failure rates yet we keep on reproducing them under other names. The days of the steady, careful, independant and knowledgable public service are long gone. It has been replaced by constant movement, reorganisation and ‘cost cutting’ (this year the Christmas party has been abolished in the name of cost reductions!). I’m glad to be out of it.

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