Letters - 21 September 2012

From change to resource sharing

by The Friend Newsdesk 21st September 2012

Time for change

David Holmes (7 September) alleges that we are going to the dogs since (inter alia) the recording clerk has become a chief executive, so can no longer be a servant. Nonsense. Every recording clerk has always been a chief executive, whether responsible for three or 300 others. And every good chief executive in any organisation cannot be good without being a servant. Jennifer Barraclough, ex-director of Woodbrooke, was a good chief executive by serving the institution, its staff, its clients and the Society. Some people’s service is to give orders.

Peter Moss