Viewpoint
Author: Eliot Wilson
“One of the... most hackneyed ‘solutions’ to the... problems which beset British government [is to] bring in dynamic, no-nonsense leaders from the business world... [The idea has been tried before] and... results have been mixed... John Davies, director general of the CBI in the late 1960s [led the] department of trade and industry. As a former MD of Shell-Mex and BP, he was the ideal candidate... surely? Not quite. Davies was a disaster. He never got to grips with his department of more than 25...