But surely Liam you are leaving too much out here. The US economy is subject to massive permanent budgetary stimulus - 6.3% for 2024 with 5.9% predicted this year amounting to $1.78tn. Accepting that EU budget rules are frequently broken, EU governments are still supposed to keep their deficits under 3%. Britain's deficit at less than 5% is considered a significant problem. The US is sustaining this only because of its reserve currency status. Whilst US growth numbers top the G7, hardly anyone would rather live in the US because US economic success is not delivering for a large chunk of its population - hence its slide into fascism. Moreover US trade and security policy is trashing US relationships with its allies and detabilising the global economy. Europeans mostly look on what is happening in the US with horror. I am sure you are right that the EU and Britain can do a lot to function better, but a reheated Thatcherism of looking to America is no way to inspire change.
Thank you, Liam. My trusted relations in America tell me it is an increasingly expensive place to live. They also tell me that there is a great deal of mistreatment at work. So, at what cost in terms of increasing inequality and increasing mental health is growth? 🤔 Do greed, ego, grifting, and power create happy societies? 🤔I prefer grafting and not grifting and believe that focusing on productivity, as you say, is critical.
So why is productivity diving in the UK? I can only discuss this in light of my lifetime work experiences. I am 61 and have left corporate working life because I believe corporations have lost their way by adopting some American practices, such as grifting and imposter leadership, which lack agility. I have worked in multiple sectors, demographics and geographies, including but not limited to the Lord Chancellor's Division—Post Office, NHS and Home Office. I have seen the same mistakes, ranging from intransigence to a failure to continuously adapt internally in an agile way.
I have also seen what works with some tremendous successes when culture does not eat strategy for breakfast.
I don't think we need more of this grifting in the UK. We need agile grafting based on flexible beliefs, thoughts, feelings and behaviour, which make people feel safe, thereby increasing motivation, desire for learning and high performance. I'm convinced this can change if we channel investment into UK start-ups and businesses, thereby encouraging young entrepreneurs rather than oligopolistic oligarchies. So, let's consider how capital is invested, which isn't entirely laissez-faire. 🤔I'm reminded of the industrial revolution, which had multiple rail gauges which did not join up. Is this today's Britain, disjointed, divided and misfiring?
We must counter inefficiencies and ineffectiveness, as seen in the Post Office scandal, which demonstrates institional betrayal blindness on a colossal scale. We must train and skill up our own people so that we can work as a team rather than follow this failed experiment of outsourcing everything.
In recent years, I have suffered tremendous pain because of the Post Office scandal, and I found amazing trusted huddles to help me heal from my illness. I did this on my own as layer after layer of so-called trusted administration and regulation failed me. I agree wholeheartedly that we need reform as a verb, yet most definitely not as a noun. Let's vigorously address this fearsome and burgeoning mental health crisis and replace it with psychological capital; hope, optimism, resilience and self-efficacy. #Unity #LovingOthers. The first urgent reform we need is in the workplace, by backing Rachael Maskell's proposal for a respectful working code. #PsychologicalSafety #Growth #RightSortOfGrowth
But surely Liam you are leaving too much out here. The US economy is subject to massive permanent budgetary stimulus - 6.3% for 2024 with 5.9% predicted this year amounting to $1.78tn. Accepting that EU budget rules are frequently broken, EU governments are still supposed to keep their deficits under 3%. Britain's deficit at less than 5% is considered a significant problem. The US is sustaining this only because of its reserve currency status. Whilst US growth numbers top the G7, hardly anyone would rather live in the US because US economic success is not delivering for a large chunk of its population - hence its slide into fascism. Moreover US trade and security policy is trashing US relationships with its allies and detabilising the global economy. Europeans mostly look on what is happening in the US with horror. I am sure you are right that the EU and Britain can do a lot to function better, but a reheated Thatcherism of looking to America is no way to inspire change.
Wonderfully clear and succinct. Thank you 👍
Thank you, Liam. My trusted relations in America tell me it is an increasingly expensive place to live. They also tell me that there is a great deal of mistreatment at work. So, at what cost in terms of increasing inequality and increasing mental health is growth? 🤔 Do greed, ego, grifting, and power create happy societies? 🤔I prefer grafting and not grifting and believe that focusing on productivity, as you say, is critical.
So why is productivity diving in the UK? I can only discuss this in light of my lifetime work experiences. I am 61 and have left corporate working life because I believe corporations have lost their way by adopting some American practices, such as grifting and imposter leadership, which lack agility. I have worked in multiple sectors, demographics and geographies, including but not limited to the Lord Chancellor's Division—Post Office, NHS and Home Office. I have seen the same mistakes, ranging from intransigence to a failure to continuously adapt internally in an agile way.
I have also seen what works with some tremendous successes when culture does not eat strategy for breakfast.
I don't think we need more of this grifting in the UK. We need agile grafting based on flexible beliefs, thoughts, feelings and behaviour, which make people feel safe, thereby increasing motivation, desire for learning and high performance. I'm convinced this can change if we channel investment into UK start-ups and businesses, thereby encouraging young entrepreneurs rather than oligopolistic oligarchies. So, let's consider how capital is invested, which isn't entirely laissez-faire. 🤔I'm reminded of the industrial revolution, which had multiple rail gauges which did not join up. Is this today's Britain, disjointed, divided and misfiring?
We must counter inefficiencies and ineffectiveness, as seen in the Post Office scandal, which demonstrates institional betrayal blindness on a colossal scale. We must train and skill up our own people so that we can work as a team rather than follow this failed experiment of outsourcing everything.
In recent years, I have suffered tremendous pain because of the Post Office scandal, and I found amazing trusted huddles to help me heal from my illness. I did this on my own as layer after layer of so-called trusted administration and regulation failed me. I agree wholeheartedly that we need reform as a verb, yet most definitely not as a noun. Let's vigorously address this fearsome and burgeoning mental health crisis and replace it with psychological capital; hope, optimism, resilience and self-efficacy. #Unity #LovingOthers. The first urgent reform we need is in the workplace, by backing Rachael Maskell's proposal for a respectful working code. #PsychologicalSafety #Growth #RightSortOfGrowth