Management at the BBC

There has been much discussion on the BBC and elsewhere since the publication yesterday of Dame Janet Smith's Report on the Jimmy Savile saga.

It is said that no one in senior management was aware of what was happening.

Poor managers?

And the same of course in the church.

It requires almost prophet-like people to challenge the management class. They develop or create an aura around them that is almost impossible to challenge.

They create their own cliques and then live within that world.

A scenario: someone seems to be causing trouble. The line manager/parish priest/prior reports it to the CEO/bishop/provincial.

Nine times out of ten the CEO/bishop/provinical will be more inclined to listen to her/his immediate underling.

The way of the world. The way of the church.

The management class of its nature has to be sly and cunning. How else could people get to such positions?

Yes, they may have talent but always dosed with large quantities of sycophancy.  They also have to be bullies.

Of course there are exceptions. The more intelligent, the more insightful leadership is, the better the chance of fairness and success. And goodness and happiness too.