Link to The Times
Mr Bean's reputation as a BRAIN is quickly unravelling! 
Two Treasury departments came under fire yesterday for poor leadership, a failure to inspire and a “lack of humility”.
The two final reports from a Whitehall-wide performance scrutiny (commissioned by Sir Gus O’Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary) concluded that in his last years at HM Treasury, Gordon Brown led from the top in splendid isolation. His department failed to encourage team work, motivate staff or liaise effectively with other parts of Government.
Surveys of management, largely self-congratulatory, showed how out of tune the senior officials were with staff perception, the report said.
The second report, on the beleaguered Revenue & Customs department, which was also accountable to Mr Brown, paints an even bleaker picture of a department in chaos and lacking direction which has failed 75 per cent of its performance targets.
The publication of both reports is said to have been delayed so that they would get buried in the fallout over the lost discs.
The two final reports from a Whitehall-wide performance scrutiny (commissioned by Sir Gus O’Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary) concluded that in his last years at HM Treasury, Gordon Brown led from the top in splendid isolation. His department failed to encourage team work, motivate staff or liaise effectively with other parts of Government.
Surveys of management, largely self-congratulatory, showed how out of tune the senior officials were with staff perception, the report said.
The second report, on the beleaguered Revenue & Customs department, which was also accountable to Mr Brown, paints an even bleaker picture of a department in chaos and lacking direction which has failed 75 per cent of its performance targets.
The publication of both reports is said to have been delayed so that they would get buried in the fallout over the lost discs.
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