The Ball Game 

Imagine being the manager of a soccer team and your team somehow doesn’t quite cut it. Modest skills, few innovative tactics, no spectacular goals, no big wins.

Chances are that as a manager in the UN, you just add a few players onto the field and hope that nobody objects.

Perhaps this is not a good analogy for a HQ budget exercise.

But if we want to be competitive in these days of UN reform, we don’t have to do more, but we have to do it better.

(8 August 2003)

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