Who said this and when? Is it still relevant?

"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation."





Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.


Quoted in an article about the NHS.............

Had to be a politician.

..and a Frenchman to boot!;)