A little leadership lesson....

Anyone that has studied the very basics of leadership will know that in the most simple terms effective leadership is made up of 3 elements:

Task
Team
Individual

You have to look after all 3 to ensure success. Looking at Gordon Brown's leadership I am really struggling to see if he understands even the basics!! For starters he doesn't even seem to know what his task is, it is hard to focus on maintaining the aim when you don't even have one! And unless you are unlucky enough to have the surname Balls then you can forget he is thinking about the individuals in his team. As for the team, well......


I have taught 16 year olds with better leadership than this man.

I know it's unfair to kick a man when he is down but.......

I don't know how old this joke is, I don't know how many people have heard it, but I dont care because it is funny and it is sadly so apt.........


While stitching up the hand of a 75 year old Norfolk farmer, who cut it on a gate while working cattle, the rural doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.

Eventually the topic got around to Gordon Brown and his appointment as Prime Minister.

"Well, you know," drawled the old farmer, "this Brown fellow is what they call a fencepost tortoise."

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a fencepost tortoise was.

The old farmer said, "When you're driving along a country road and you come across a fence post with a tortoise balanced on top, that's called a fencepost tortoise."

The old farmer saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain,

"You know he didn't get up there by himself, he definitely doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he is up there, and you just have to wonder what kind of idiot put him up there in the first place."

Total Cabinet Failure

So it has finally happened.... She has realised just how utterly useless she really is and has decided to jump before being pushed. How honourable, it is about the only sensible thing she has done in her whole time in office. So who can Big Bad Brown now find that can do a worse Job then dear Jacqui. His Cabinet now reminds me of a ship I once served on (A T23 Frigate for any spotters out there) that was powered by Diesel Generators, a great idea until one of them had a short and we suffered Total Electrical Failure. We were left drifting for hours in a state nautical people would refer to as 'Not under Command' a perfect description I believe to this current Government.

Meanwhile does anyone remember this classic villain from the Pink Panther Movies of the late 70's....

http://tinyurl.com/comdog-brn

(The Evening Standard's photographer has excelled himself this time!!!)

Answers on a post card please.......