Metaphors are cheap

Civil servants will need to work efficiently or face redundancy under new rules | Civil service | The Guardian

In a speech in December, McFadden (The Cabinet Office MIinister) said ministers wanted to rewire the state to function “more like a startup”. He announced plans to simplify Whitehall’s recruitment process for external candidates and to offer tech workers year-long secondments in Whitehall to tackle some of the public sector’s biggest challenges. [emphasis added]

Would he want Airbus or a startup to build planes? Crashing the country is a N of 1 experiment.