No longer needing to fake corporate loyalty.

Blog Category: 
Opinion

I never had a problem representing the great and the good. I could happily appear at events and present our corporate line with poise and charm. Or should that be poisoning charm. Well now I have departed from their clutches, to be me again, just like the picture. Why does that matter for SIX?

Regular folk do not understand formal corporate structures. Why should they? Generally they want to be happy and have good friends. Professional corporate types, on the other hand, like the mystique of complex concepts and power structures. They love the attributes of power. No big office, no desk, no priority parking, etc and they are devastated and sometimes unable to function. How, otherwise do you get respect?

In a major study aimed developing the idea of skills for sustainable communities experts in urban regeneration concluded that they were over fragmented and needed to develop better and overlapping skills. They did survey some non experts to get their input into this abstraction and they did ignore the result. That result was about the outcome of the regeneration processes. To the professionals it was a sort of sustainable regeneration paradise. To the regular folk it was to be happy and have friends.