Meeting people running the Charities Commission was bit of an eye opener. You might understand why a disabled home secretary (blind) wanted to appoint a woman with a degenerative brain disease as the chief commissioner(a lovely woman too though a bit flaky)but why appoint an accountant with no experience managing a large organisation as a chief executive? Being a professional he of course then appoints a lawyer with no experience of management as director of operations, and he appoints another lawyer, again with no management experience as being responsible for all the staff giving services to charities. How is that going to work ?
The chief executive is a little angry man of 50 who comes to work on a scooter (not a cool vespa but the sort we had when we were kids that you push along with your foot). I met him twice briefly when in london but spoke more to one of his staff. More about him later....