And this at a time when another Sunday Times article has this nice little quote:
"Adair believes that between one in 10 and one in 15 people have leadership potential — and that if this is brought out, organisations will be transformed. There are just over 350,000 nurses in the NHS. If 40,000 of them could be turned into leaders, our second most hopeless public service after the police would be galvanised. “Our armed forces represent the most successful British institution since the war,” says Adair, a former senior lecturer at Sandhurst, “ and they routinely spot and select people with leadership qualities.”
Adair’s idea of leadership is based upon a three-circles theory employed by the armed forces. The three circles are: individual, group and task. Anybody who can keep these three in balance has leadership potential. Lose that balance and you have nothing."
Perhaps Bliar and his cronies just fear the inherent leadership of HM Forces. Wouldn't it be nice if the Job Spec for S of S Defence said "must be (ex-) UK Military"
