Has a continuing player of Survivor: Cubicle Edition, this makes absolutely perfect sense to me:
The Dilbert Strategy – New York Times
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.
I just heard CNN White House Corespondent Ed Henry say, “it’s not just about moving bureaucratic boxes around, It’s about trying to restore confidence in the markets.” And they’re doing this by what means? By moving bureaucratic boxes around to give the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke power over existing regulatory bodies. Will that be enough? I think not…
