Cornish_Pikey
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https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/non-executive-directors/
Non executive directors? I'm confused?
Non executive directors? I'm confused?
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When did this become a thing?
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Like lots of organisations, they promote people to a job with responsibilities then hire outside consultants to tell them what to do.
My local council has quite a lot of 'executive councillors' on £100K plus and also spends around £30 million each year on consultants to get those executive councillors out of pickles that they were originally hired for to prevent.
My local council has quite a lot of 'executive councillors' on £100K plus and also spends around £30 million each year on consultants to get those executive councillors out of pickles that they were originally hired for to prevent.
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Welcome to RAF PLC. Profit today, manpower as a resource is expendable and replaceable!!!! Unless you are in the higher echelons of course!!
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The theory is that those people who have spent years reaching the top of an organisation or industry (the executive directors) become so attuned to the organisation as they have known it that they become incapable (or, at least, less able) to see other opportunities or better ways of doing things and hence they and the organisation fail to change and develop as they could. By bringing in 'outsiders' as non-exec directors (they sit on the board but have no real power in the organisation) you bring in experience from a wider range of backgrounds and businesses to advise on other (sometimes better) ways of doing things.
The issue I have is that defence has different constraints to business (we have to contend with treasury rules and have no choice about where/when we operate, for example) and people still have reasons for joining the services (for example a full career in one service - we don't allow/encourage people to do 5 - 6 years in the RAF then change to the RN for a few more before moving to the Army or back to the RAF) which are different from the reasons for taking jobs elsewhere so not all external good ideas are valid or useful in defence.
The issue I have is that defence has different constraints to business (we have to contend with treasury rules and have no choice about where/when we operate, for example) and people still have reasons for joining the services (for example a full career in one service - we don't allow/encourage people to do 5 - 6 years in the RAF then change to the RN for a few more before moving to the Army or back to the RAF) which are different from the reasons for taking jobs elsewhere so not all external good ideas are valid or useful in defence.
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I wondered what Susan Boyle was doing now.
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Of course, all of this assumes that someone good enough to reach Air rank is then
too stupid to think more broadly than their past without being prompted by a civilian with no military experience;
would not allow their experience with such civilians to colour their planning for their future careers outside of the services;
wouldn't allow such civilian luminaries of industry to use their new platforms as opportunities to press their own companies' products on a grateful MOD;
No sirree, none of that would be true...