How About In 2025 We Throw Some Incompetent CEOs In Prison?
Society has a problem with people being rewarded handsomely for being terrible at their jobs.
Before we get going on what I promise won’t be entirely a socialist rant I’m going to give a pre-amble from my own experience in the UK charity sector. I was briefly employed by a (remaining nameless) NGO, they had been given a hefty chunk of money by an (also nameless) Government department to run a project.
The project was about bringing disparate groups of young people of different faiths together in a community-based project. They were delighted and took the money, failing to point out the one fatal flaw in their otherwise perfect plan.
Nobody in the office knew how to do this in practice.
They had a handsomely-paid CEO, a project manager, a marketing team, and a comms department who were well oiled. What they lacked was any skill with young people or an actual overarching strategy.
The CEO’s plan was to hand everything over to the project manager, who in turn would run down the clock then offer to give the money back because, lo and behold, the project was undeliverable. On this occasion though, the minister didn’t want the money back. The minister wanted a project.
