Dilbert and the Financial Crises
As a long time employee of the tech industry, I am quite familiar with Dilbert, and have repeatedly laughed out loud when Scott Adams' comic strip highlights the latest fad or issue sweeps through the tech industry, and management.
Today, Paul Krugman explains how Dilbert explains some of the Bush administration as well:
Anyone who has worked in a large organization — or, for that matter, reads the comic strip “Dilbert” — is familiar with the “org chart” strategy. To hide their lack of any actual ideas about what to do, managers sometimes make a big show of rearranging the boxes and lines that say who reports to whom.
You now understand the principle behind the Bush administration’s new proposal for financial reform, which will be formally announced today: it’s all about creating the appearance of responding to the current crisis, without actually doing anything substantive.
This principle is also known as "rearranging the deck chairs", but as Krugman illustrates in his column, the new "re-org" that the Bush administration is pushing to deal with the current financial crises, really is nothing more than a re-arrangement of the deck chairs.
Like the Titanic, the Bush Administration is. Only Bush doesn't realize he has already hit the iceberg.
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