Something happened the other day that set me musing on doing as we are told. Fundamental changes have crept in to the way we interact in our society over the last years. This has a lot to do with the introduction of ever-increasing regulation and a reluctance on the part of many people to take […]
Now this is going to be quite short but covers the important issue of Civil Service accountability. Over recent years I have come across a number of instances where the Civil Service in the execution of their duties have seen fit to impose an interpretation of the Law that has no foundation in legislation. All […]
The world is going crazy – or at least it seems so. Despite all the fuss about executive pay – nobody with the power to act appears to have the guts to challenge the proposed executive package for Stephen Hester at RBS (reputedly worth £9.6m) I agree with Roger Lawson, of the UK Shareholders Association […]
Just who is there in the media and the political elite who is actually asking the real questions? Is anybody thinking? The current brou-ha-ha about the demise of Labour at the polls may be great political entertainment but it is not getting to the nub of the real problem. So what do I think that […]
There has been plenty splashed all over the media in the last weeks about sleaze and lack of integrity in general. Whether that has been the expenses issue in Parliament, the treatment of retired Gurkhas or the contempt for shareholders in setting the remuneration of senior execs at Royal Dutch Shell and elsewhere. What much […]
Right now there are projects all over that are based on cutting costs in business through application of Lean Techniques and outsourcing of services. Only the other day I listened as a spokesman set out the reasoning behind Essex Council’s outsourced approach to cost-cutting in an attempt to balance their budget. But surely this is […]
Some thinking that highlights what happens if you ask difficult questions. I was engaged in an international dialogue the other day about “Where now for globalization?” in the context of the current economic turmoil. What was intriguing was the extent to which senior figures from around the globe were focusing on the large corporate impacts […]
What, I was wondering, would have happened if the recent debacle over banking had taken place against a different operating background? Consider the causes (and outpourings) that have led us to the position where, in the UK at least, the Government owns one bank (Northern Rock), is heading for over 80% ownership of another (Royal […]
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