Some time ago (as always, better late than never) I discovered the sophisticated, though occasionally stinging humour of the BBC’s “Yes, Minister” series featured during the 80s in the UK. I found it a brilliant political satire and an amazing source of inspiration and comfort for those of us who earn their cash as civil servants and whose working energy is dedicated to “spending endless hours circulating information that isn’t relevant about subjects that don’t matter to people who are not interested.” It occurred to me that I might try to summarize the valuable advice and the messages of the text and structure it in a way that would help implement its timeless wisdom into our daily routine and thus improve the latter substantially.
For everyone involved in the administrative world and practices I hope the attached text will be a useful guiding tool in facing the diverse challenges of this prestigious occupation. The rest of you will, hopefully, find this a pleasant distraction and a nice break during a hard working day!
Aug 2006
2 comments:
Hi Eleina,
I really enjoyed your blog post on "Yes (Prime) Minster". I appriciate all the work that must have gone into it.
It was a brilliant comedy series that still stands the test of time. I just wonder what it's fate would be had it been launched nowadays with satallite/cable TV and time-shift to dilute the audience numbers.
Thanks for rekindling my interest, I might go and hunt it down on disk.
DkA
Hello, thank you for your comment.
I suspect "The Office" series might be a source of an equally timeless wisdom and bitter-sweet entertainment:-)
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