Power to the "working" People.

There is a bit of a myth that managers can manage anything without learning the nitty gritty of the business - the 'professional manager' is only the progress chaser role in the case above. The other roles, of tech expert and money raiser are equally required for anything other than a short term success.

It is not without reason that disparaging phrases, such as 'Lions led by Donkeys' have at time been applied to much of UK industry, both nationalised and private.

Ignore the problems on the shop floor at your peril, and be very wary of any sort of management that looks at it's workforce through a window and never mingles.


Equally, I do not know how many here remember the aggro around wage controls  1966 act that introduced wage limits for given tasks and the related removal and later re-instatement of  free collective bargaining. I am too young to remember the introduction, but certainly the fall out a decade later was memorable. From that and high income taxes that discouraged the principle of high earnings for good work, a very significant brain drain ensued, from which arguably we never really recovered. I do not think we would manage a 2nd round of that sort of politics

There is a bit of a myth that managers can manage anything without learning the nitty gritty of the business - the 'professional manager' is only the progress chaser role in the case above. The other roles, of tech expert and money raiser are equally required for anything other than a short term success.

It is not without reason that disparaging phrases, such as 'Lions led by Donkeys' have at time been applied to much of UK industry, both nationalised and private.

Ignore the problems on the shop floor at your peril, and be very wary of any sort of management that looks at it's workforce through a window and never mingles.


Equally, I do not know how many here remember the aggro around wage controls  1966 act that introduced wage limits for given tasks and the related removal and later re-instatement of  free collective bargaining. I am too young to remember the introduction, but certainly the fall out a decade later was memorable. From that and high income taxes that discouraged the principle of high earnings for good work, a very significant brain drain ensued, from which arguably we never really recovered. I do not think we would manage a 2nd round of that sort of politics