Report on Gordon Brown’s Treasury is embarassing

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BrilloPad replied

19 December 2007, 07:17
Originally posted by oraclesmith View Post

The Peter Principle at work !

Is that the one that says all the lumpy bits float to the top?
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oraclesmith replied

18 December 2007, 22:28
The Peter Principle at work !
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wendigo100 started a topic Report on Gordon Brown’s Treasury is embarassing

18 December 2007, 22:25
Report on Gordon Brown’s Treasury is embarassing

Link to The Times

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.

Mr Bean's reputation as a BRAIN is quickly unravelling!
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