Lessons from Booth and Cleese on Government (3rd edn)

Lessons from Booth and Cleese on Government (3rd edn)

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4 July

Lessons from Booth and Cleese on Government (3rd edn)

Booth and Cleese on Government (3rd edn) tells us about employing 'The Waldorf salad manoeuvre' :

1. The employee (Terry) is skilled, but Basil deems him unskilled.

2. As he demonstrates, by trying to get Terry to stay on (yet keep the £20 that Mr Hamilton paid).#BasilAndBJ

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Good employers actually value employees, and will ensure that they take proper breaks and their entitlement of leave, because they care about them

Bad employers (who also make punctuality an issue, etc.) invoke work-life balance as a weapon and / or bad managers use it 'unseen'

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A composer of music, whether writing to commission or not, is not answerable to anyone but inspiration when a glorious theme comes to mind or an impasse in the work evaporates

However, one conceals from bad employers / managers, say, not when an e-mail was sent, but when drafted

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Duck's off!

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29 August

Our own gourmet night, when a friend and I visited an upmarket Indian restaurant that had shunned dark furnishings in favour of a light and bright decor (replete with shining statues of violins and saxes), was nothing like Basil's.

Except that, when I saw the list of tandoori items available, I could not resist - because I had never experienced - duck done in a tandoor oven.

Now I know, because I have no reason to believe that it was not a perfectly good initial piece of poultry, that the transformation that the process works on chicken (or lamb) is not suited to that very different commodity of duck: the effect, as characterized by my friend when he sampled a couple of pieces, was to render the dense flesh more like liver.

So it was alchemically no longer duck, but more like (though not sufficiently so to repulse me) a cheaper offering: gold into lead, one rather feared, for all that the experiment was worth...


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