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Andy Lane
October 11, 2016 at 2:18 pmIf on your journey to the office each morning you have a high expectation that come-what-may someone somewhere will bail you out – it is also highly improbable that organisation has a true performance culture. Subsidies breed complacency, as well as unfair competition.
The staff on the front-line and in middle management can only ever be as good as the organisation’s business model and strategy. The buck must stop in the boardroom, and they need to be fully accountable for bad business debts.