Midge wrote
<<Take the managers, starve them, frighten them, bore them, bombard
them.
Then expect great things of them.
Speaking personally, let me say that after bombardment with medium
range ballistic missiles, the NHS administration lacks power to
coerce.>>
Yeah, well, used to sleep pretty sound in Baghdad myself, except the nights
the Iranians decided to have yet another go at takng out the oil refinery
about 9K away. It actually reminded me of home (NI) in the 70s when the
local militia were very active, blowing up waterworks and other symbols of
British investment in our impoverished statelet. Bang! Rattle of windows!
Rattle of doors!
I agree about power to coerce and it leads me to the thought that in
general others only have power over us if we let them. Or if we give them
that power in that first place, I think Marx had something to say on that.
Anyone?
Thinking of all the crap we all endured in hospitals---consultants with
personality disorders, stroppy paramedical and support staff, psychotic
nursing sisters---but we by and large let them do it to us because we chose
to. We wanted another job or a good reference or a quiet life or whatever
and we decided--at some level in our brain--to carry on being the lowest of
the low. So if we want to have great managers we need to make them all work
1 in 1, no holidays, as interns for about three years. After that the
survivors should be worth looking at. Meantime I fancy that carpet in the
Chief Exec's office.....
Declan
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