Has Ryan Tubridy done the nation a great service? If inflation is coming back down all on its own, why raise interest rates? The UK is literally getting sick.
I’ve moved around many insurance companies and consultancies and in my experience the bigger and longer established the organisation the more ingrained the culture and harder to change. Culture can only be changed in a ruthless way led from the very top. And quite often when change is led from the top and that change ruffles feathers (as it needs to) the 100% backing begins to fall away as the consequences are felt. Influential people underneath in the management chain gang up and apply spin to portray the attempts at culture change as mismanagement. People who are good at their job even though they are part of the culture problem may leave and the company finds them difficult to replace. The breaking of these eggs to make an omelette begin to be seen as mistakes, and then leader either leaves or has their wings clipped. The consequence is the organisation reverts back to a status quo.
More often than not, the culture change is never attempted. Unless of course a scandal forced it. Those who rose through the management chain are products of that environment and have thrived under it. So of course they see nothing wrong. They then apply hire and promote like minded people around them, who are used to thinking and behaving just like them. Preferring to have “another me” close by to delegate things to, rather than thinking who do I need in here to compensate for the skills and the perspectives that I don’t have - that’s what should happen!
Personally, in my experience I find British organisations the worst for this. Particularly when it comes to middle management believing that a bit if spin over substance is what’s needed to get ahead. I often wonder if the educational system has played a role in breeding this workplace culture. And I often wonder if the dysfunctional nature of much of the British economy, as well as Brexit, be in part attributed to a culture of poofery that I see an endemic in British management classes in my experience.
Interesting discussion on corporate culture.
I’ve moved around many insurance companies and consultancies and in my experience the bigger and longer established the organisation the more ingrained the culture and harder to change. Culture can only be changed in a ruthless way led from the very top. And quite often when change is led from the top and that change ruffles feathers (as it needs to) the 100% backing begins to fall away as the consequences are felt. Influential people underneath in the management chain gang up and apply spin to portray the attempts at culture change as mismanagement. People who are good at their job even though they are part of the culture problem may leave and the company finds them difficult to replace. The breaking of these eggs to make an omelette begin to be seen as mistakes, and then leader either leaves or has their wings clipped. The consequence is the organisation reverts back to a status quo.
More often than not, the culture change is never attempted. Unless of course a scandal forced it. Those who rose through the management chain are products of that environment and have thrived under it. So of course they see nothing wrong. They then apply hire and promote like minded people around them, who are used to thinking and behaving just like them. Preferring to have “another me” close by to delegate things to, rather than thinking who do I need in here to compensate for the skills and the perspectives that I don’t have - that’s what should happen!
Personally, in my experience I find British organisations the worst for this. Particularly when it comes to middle management believing that a bit if spin over substance is what’s needed to get ahead. I often wonder if the educational system has played a role in breeding this workplace culture. And I often wonder if the dysfunctional nature of much of the British economy, as well as Brexit, be in part attributed to a culture of poofery that I see an endemic in British management classes in my experience.