Les quatre étapes sacrées pour la gestion de crise


Yes Prime Minister
"Stage One
- We say that nothing is going to happen
Stage Two
- We say that something may be going to happen, but we should do nothing about it
Stage Three
- We say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do
Stage Four
- We say that maybe there was something we could have done but it's too late now" 63


Esprits conventionnels ? Court-circuit immédiat


Yes Prime Minister
"Life is simple when you have so many precedents to follow.
But they are like computers :
- put them into a new crisis,
- for which they've not been programmed,
- and their brains short-circuit" 64


Transparence


Yes Prime Minister
"So long as as there is anything to be gained by saying nothing, it is always better to say nothing than anything" (p. 14)

"The first rule of politics is Never Believe Anything Until It's Been Officially Denied." (p. 26)

"I was scrupulously careful not to tell lies. There is, of course, a significant difference between not telling lies and not telling the truth. The truth in politics means any statement that cannot be proved false. " (p. 28)

"Open Government, Prime Minister. Freedom of Information. We should always tell the press, freely and frankly, anything that they can easily find out some other way." (p. 76) 65


Aux risques de la critique


J. Clératie
"Tout homme qui dirige, qui fait quelque chose, a contre lui ceux qui font la même chose, ceux qui font précisément le contraire, et surtout la grande armée de gens, beaucoup plus sévères, qui ne font rien"


Principes de protection


"Il vaut mieux le bruit sec d'un parapluie qui s'ouvre que le bruit mou d'une carrière qui s'effondre"

"Nous ne nous laisserons pas abuser par la réalité"


Convictions


Bardé de certitudes plus que de convictions…

63/ J. Lynn & A. Jay : Yes Prime Minister, BBC books, 1986, p. 177.
64/ J. Lynn & A. Jay : Yes Prime Minister, BBC books, 1986, p. 344.
65/ J. Lynn & A. Jay : Yes Prime Minister, BBC books, 1986.