Comments on: Paying the Cost to be the Boss http://blog.interimpartners.com/paying-the-cost-to-be-the-boss.html Encouraging debate and discussion within the interim management sector Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:51:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Barry Allen http://blog.interimpartners.com/paying-the-cost-to-be-the-boss.html/comment-page-1#comment-192 Barry Allen Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:56:32 +0000 http://www.interimpartners.com/blog/?p=135#comment-192 Dear James With respect to your comments on the government spending it's way out of recession, I totally agree that this is sheer lunacy. The last time we ran up a debt of this proportion was during the war and we have never been able to pay it back and never will, perhaps the government has no real intention that we could ever pay the present borrowing back either! I am an independent Interim Turnaround MD within the private sector, as well as a member of the PricewaterhouseCooper Turnaround Panel. Anyone rescuing a business in deep financial debt immediately stops all spending except the most critical expenditure, that means 'all' non critical spending. UK plc is such a business. If all non critical UK spending was halted entirely for 12 months, all projects were put on hold, overseas aid was held, recruitment was held, overseas funding was held, etc,etc,etc, cut back on all costs to commercial levels, we are talking £ trillions, this would cause a lot of whining which we get anyway, but would allow all debts to be paid off in one single year. It would put this country back on it's feet and make it the strongest economy in the world, and in just 12 months! Now that is the correct solution which any good captain of industry would employ and recommend. So why do our leaders (tongue-in-cheek) not see this or adopt this - and there you have the real question we should be addressing, yes it is our leaders, and any that would take their place. I have always believed that those taking office should have served a mandatory period in a commercial business before taking responsibility for the decisions and biggest budgets of any UK business, those of UK plc. The public sector must be made into a commercial public sector, and that is where we commercial interims must fight to influence the powers that be, to appoint us to implement the vital changes. We are up to it, nobody else is, it is a mammoth task, so the sooner we can break down the barriers the sooner we get started on righting UK plc. I and many others of us desperately want to help. We have a lot of big convincing to do. James, please let me know how I can assist in any way to 'fight the good fight' . If you have any good ideas please get in touch. best regards Barry Allen Interaxis Consultants Ltd Office: 01527 877057 Mob: 07551 611249 Dear James
With respect to your comments on the government spending it’s way out of recession, I totally agree that this is sheer lunacy. The last time we ran up a debt of this proportion was during the war and we have never been able to pay it back and never will, perhaps the government has no real intention that we could ever pay the present borrowing back either!

I am an independent Interim Turnaround MD within the private sector, as well as a member of the PricewaterhouseCooper Turnaround Panel. Anyone rescuing a business in deep financial debt immediately stops all spending except the most critical expenditure, that means ‘all’ non critical spending. UK plc is such a business.

If all non critical UK spending was halted entirely for 12 months, all projects were put on hold, overseas aid was held, recruitment was held, overseas funding was held, etc,etc,etc, cut back on all costs to commercial levels, we are talking £ trillions, this would cause a lot of whining which we get anyway, but would allow all debts to be paid off in one single year. It would put this country back on it’s feet and make it the strongest economy in the world, and in just 12 months!

Now that is the correct solution which any good captain of industry would employ and recommend. So why do our leaders (tongue-in-cheek) not see this or adopt this – and there you have the real question we should be addressing, yes it is our leaders, and any that would take their place. I have always believed that those taking office should have served a mandatory period in a commercial business before taking responsibility for the decisions and biggest budgets of any UK business, those of UK plc.

The public sector must be made into a commercial public sector, and that is where we commercial interims must fight to influence the powers that be, to appoint us to implement the vital changes. We are up to it, nobody else is, it is a mammoth task, so the sooner we can break down the barriers the sooner we get started on righting UK plc.

I and many others of us desperately want to help. We have a lot of big convincing to do.

James, please let me know how I can assist in any way to ‘fight the good fight’ .
If you have any good ideas please get in touch.

best regards
Barry Allen

Interaxis Consultants Ltd
Office: 01527 877057
Mob: 07551 611249

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