Ele Ludemann: Bureaucratic sabotage

Alan Eggers, chief executive of Trans Tasman Resources (TTR) in conversation with Leighton Smith:

. . . This is a major commercial project where we have invested over ninety million. I’m sorry, over eighty five million, nearly ninety million dollars and we are now being frustrated by a bunch of bureaucrats. . .

I think bureaucrats and the bureaucracy here and particularly the civil service around Wellington, are like road cones.

JD: It Is a Public Service Defence Strategy

Guest post on The Good Oil by JD

Back in the day I ran one of the larger sales forces in Australasia in one of the most competitive of industries: Office Equipment. And if you think loan sharks, used-car salesmen and the parliamentary wing of Te Pāti Māori are the best exemplars of fanatical, self-interested aggression, you’ve never seen a pack of OE salespeople chasing down a photocopier order. But I digress.