Why, I wondered, do governments fail so regularly – judged both by our expectations and by the intentions of the elected politicians? Or, to put it more softly by a reviewer of my book: ‘The author addresses a deceptively simple question that has bedeviled generations of politicians and officials: Why does British government never work as effectively as we’d like it to?’…

What can a Management Consultant teach a Government Minister?
Lecture to 115 MBA students, 95% from outside the UK, covering around 35 countries introducing the