Why We so Need a Captain Hank to Help Command Our Ship

Evening Standard - London › November 27, 2006

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THIS is the week when business leaders gather for their annual orgy of mutual backslapping and recognition, otherwise known as the CBI conference.

Doubtless, plenty of references will be made to "captains of industry" being in attendance. Well, if they're the captains, save me a place in the lifeboat. Not only will the room be full of self- important committee men (there won't be many women) but the records of the organisation's recent big wheels hardly inspire confidence.

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Why We so Need a Captain Hank to Help Command Our Ship

Lords Vallance and Marshall exceeded their sell-by dates at British Telecom and British Airways; Sir David Arculus couldn't become president because one of the companies he chaired, Severn Trent, was mired in scandal; Sir Digby Jones, the former director- general, was a director of iSoft, the NHS computer firm, which says it all; and Sir...

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