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In almost all major companies the ‘escalation’ of issues is ‘filed’ within the first, or second, line of management. That’s what modern Management is really all about. Almost every lower line manager is envious of his immediate senior (I nearly put ‘superior’ but that would have assumed ‘better’ and the argument would have fallen). Witness: the number of promotion prospects who decline the promotion – vanishingly small (that explains the advancement of the inadequate applicant/proteges like a certain Hancock et al.
Ergo, only relationships rule and that is the first rule. Ask any entrepreneur about their opinion of hierarchies. That’s a proven entrepreneur, not just a lucky one.
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If he looses some of his Andy cap support in the NE and some from his own party who are on the right wing, he’s in trouble. The LibDems are trying to appeal to moderate tory voters. Isn’t there a coming up by-election shortly? If that one is lost, he might have to walk the plank.
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Just heard his wife has just had their second baby, a great time to make a christmas party from last year seem to vanish....
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I would not have put it quite like that myself, but your overall direction of thinking is correct. If we look at what has been happening in the UK (and many other industrialised countries) since the 1980's, the earnings gap between the top layers of management and the working masses have widened year on year. The system that has evolved pays the top layer extremely high salaries and bonuses in order to deliver efficiencies. This in reality is another name for axing jobs as there is no often efficiency improvement involved. You simply cannot improve the efficiency of an industrial operation by 8%-10% year on year. What you can do is reduce costs by these amounts year on year by axing jobs. This is why overall the business or leadership capability of so many of our 'managers' is so poor. Often they do not have any such capability. When jobs are axed, it invariably means that those who still retain jobs have greater pressures on them to do more for less. So if someone was to escalate on the basis of workloads they are in fact escalating on the basis of poor but highly rewarding policies or actions of those to whom you are escalating, especially if the escalation is to your second or higher line level. The above scenario is now almost universal in front line services - in councils, hospitals, education and so on. In private industry the same pressures exist because the financial markets demand increasing profits and therefore lower cost bases in order to sustain our services based economy i.e. the salaries of financial traders and bankers. In Openreach, you were lucky in that you have a CEO in Clive Selley who has risen through the BT business from being an engineer. He understands every detail of the telecomms business. But, even he is not in a position to resist the commercial pressures from the markets. So, I agree, that what we are now calling failures, after the event, will be repeated because the fundamentals of the equation will not have changed. To finish off on a positive note, we are very good at holding equiries after the event! Last edited by MSS; 9th December 2021 at 14:40.. |
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The pressure is building up on BoJo, Mr Gove will be getting all excited that he may have to rescue the government. Could it be the beginning of the end?
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He may well do. The Tories will be ruthless when they decide it’s time to go.
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And it's unrealistic to claim that involving the Police is the answer - guess what, they are under the same pressures. Their numbers were cut massively (by the Tories, in case anyone has forgotten), yet the breadth of their responsibilities has increased markedly. As well as all the traditional law enforcement activities, they also have to cope with cyber crime, hate crime, and now pandemic-related offences as well. I'm not suggesting that failures by Police or social services should be overlooked - they make some terrible mistakes, including the truly awful case of Arthur - but in many cases they have been set up to fail. And remember that for every Arthur or Baby P, there are numerous other cases which don't make the news because they have a happier (or at least less sad) ending. Very few people get out of bed in the morning wanting to be rubbish at their job! |
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