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Liz Truss comes to mind


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Originally Posted by DaveW
Being promoted to your level of incompetence is abundant in the Civil Service and Whitehall.


I aspire to that, probably happened years ago but no one told me.


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Originally Posted by John V6
Liz Truss comes to mind


Liz Truss was promoted beyond her level of incompetence John. That's not so common, but happens in politics obviously.


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The Boris principle then not the Peter principle
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"Passionate about British luxury automotive,

I am senior manager who orchestrates the delivery of over 1000 bespoke global roles in the national interest through key relationships. Substantial crisis management and operational experience in the Armed Forces, specialising in urgent planning and resource management (including: BREXIT & COVID-19).

I enjoy problem solving and am interested in bringing my excellent inter-personal skills, relationship management, decisive leadership and planning aptitude to the commercial environment; in particular the british automotive/motorsport industry."


…..I am reasonably literate but I’m not sure I understand some of this BS. I’ll keep my fingers crossed but fear this is not looking very promising….


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He probably has a MBA and has been on lots of training courses.

He has never founded, grown and then sold a business.
My experience is that leadership demonstrated in the armed forces doesn't always work in the commercial world.
Time will tell, but this phrase worries me: ""orchestrates the delivery of over 1000 bespoke global roles"".


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That sounds full of soundbites and PC buzzwords. It worries me. I remember being on a course and one attendee started speaking like that. My bulls**t warning alarm triggered. I replied in Welsh. Another attendee thanked me for translating the previous bulls**t. There was a mix of smiles and frowns from others. It helped ID the worrying ones.


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I am with Peter on this regarding ex military types, with the possible exception of a couple of Navy guys they should have stuck to Government work .


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Maybe he was made redundant & Bentley paid for a CV coach.
When Reckitt Benkiser made me redundant I did one of those courses in Marlow.
The resulting CV I felt was so full of BS I binned it & guess what got a real job. Maybe not at a better salary but I was happy.


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I used to use this when anyone in the team started to talk sh!t@. It was for my personal protection from Management Speak.

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