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Welcome... S
o, Mr Government, when we first appointed you we looked closely at your CV, your aspirations and your ideas for exactly how you could turn our Organisation round. True, we were gliding a bit, things weren’t bad and our country and worldwide staff were reporting good news. Suddenly, it all took off and we were riding a boom before the inevitable bust. You may have turned us into lemmings but, in your defence, lemmings fundamentally do have free choice.
You’ve been with us a number of years now and, as with any of our consultants, we like to look back at the record and examine how your stewardship of our Organisation has fared and what your plans are. Our future is your future and as owners it would be dereliction of our duty not to look closely and dig deep. After all, as you are well aware, our Organisation is unusual in that, rather like John Lewis, the staff are our shareholders but, unlike John Lewis, we have 60 million of them. So, thanks for popping in to discuss certain aspects. In particular,
we’d like to ask about your hesitancy in decision-making.
You have come up with a new schools programme and this has been lauded by the shareholders. You have diverted an enormous amount of our turnover into the education exercise and this is how it should be. We won’t quote the figures back to you as I suspect they are written on your bedroom wall but there’s a staggering difference between the cost to the local authority of 'bringing up' a normal and socially well-behaved child to a post-college maturity age of 20+ compared with the cost for the very worst type of socially dysfunctional child. I know you have whispered it to colleagues in the washroom that you’d be better off giving each of the latter a million pounds and shipping them off to Easter Island and still be deeply in pocket. So, good education is vital. Thanks.
However, we are pleased but concerned that you may now want to divert some of that school money into stimulating the housing market. At the same time, minutes of your most recent planning
meeting seem to suggest that you are cutting back on the 10 ecotowns which, not so long ago, you trumpeted as nirvana. And all this eco hesitation conflicts with a time when you seem to be encouraging more wind farms under the misguided illusion that this will solve the energy crisis when clearly it won’t. It might be a good idea to set up a quango to discover why windmills died out in Europe.
We’ll let you answer in a moment but do you not agree that our shareholders are calling for firm decisions and strong leadership so we all know where we are? We know the building industry certainly is.
Which brings us on to another wry observation…………..
Welcome to Specification Magazine.
DAVID STILES PUBLISHING DIRECTOR
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