Let me try again. My main point was what someone studied at 18-21 may be irrelevant by the time they come to an important job twenty or thirty years later. It is quite possible for someone with a non technical/scientific degree to gain experience and professional qualifications later.
I am all in favour of people who know what they are doing running things. Most management tasks require teams of people with different skills. The Leader needs leaders skills, which are more about choosing talented and qualified people, incentivising them, establishing correct accountabilities, setting targets and making ultimate decisions where need arises. The team may need a scientist, a technician, a stats and maths analyst, an engineer etc.
Having a relevant degree at 21 does not mean you can run something 20 years later. Someone without a relevant degree who is good at choosing people and leading may do well as they gain management experience.
If you are a professional you have to take exams. Equally important you need to keep up to date and keep practising as experience and evolution of knowledge matters. Medics, lawyers, finance professionals etc do this through Continuous professional development learning and testing sessions. I was certainly not proposing seeking medical advice from a non qualified person, but would be happy to see a Dr at a clinic or hospital run by a good manager whatever their degree. I took a professional qualification later in life and keep up to date on investment and economic issues daily.
December 19, 2024
Yes you summarise the world of work very well. As a country I feel we have over emphasised the degree to the point where its aquisition had little relevance in the world of work. We have failed to realise the importance of the apprentership which can lead young people to the world of work in a most effective way , and that can in no way limit their path to great financial success and job satisfaction.
December 19, 2024
Good morning.
I was always told that there are ‘leaders’ and their are ‘followers’. And while that might be true there are also people who know how to climb the ‘greasy pole’. I have also found that there are some people who, in order for them to succeed, others must be seen to fail. And this works ! Well at least for them. We also see people being promoted and hitting that glass ceiling. Once done they can act as a barrier to more able people. With modern employment laws and unions these barriers are hard to breakdown.
What our kind host describes many here, including myself, would not necessaily disagree with, but ! That is in and ideal world and, from my experience, the world is less than ideal.
As others here have said. A good manager / leader knows their limitations. They know where to get the best advice. But that advice has to be ‘professional’ advice and not one that is, shall we say, ‘loaded’. I am of course thinking of the SCAMDEMIC when, the advice and ‘model(s)’ were, in some peoples eyes, unprofessional and politically slanted. It takes great skill on the part of the manager / leader to filter this out and, as I said yesterday, one has to have an open mind.
No science can be said to be settled.
December 19, 2024
Leaders need many skills mainly a working compass and an ability to get people to work together to go in that right direction.
The last PM with a working compass was Mrs Thatcher and even she made many errors. John Major her largest one,
Sunak has a maths A level and wanted to force maths onto people (even those with zero interest) up to 18. So has he worked out the scale of huge net harms done by the “Covid Vaccines” yet? The evidence of overwhelming. Time to correct your very “misleading” statement to the house Sunak.
See the recent video Dr John Cambell “Important Public Letter” with Dr Malhotra.
December 19, 2024
Let me explain again that the people who choose to drop science and maths at 16 are rather rarely the types of people who are likely to understand much higher level mathematics, logic or science later in life or to return to these subjects they are not interested or often not capable. Listening to most MPs debating climate change and energy is usually a bad joke. People demonstrating publicly demontrating their total lack of understanding about energy. Even energy ministers and shadow energy ministers do not have a clue they often do not even know the difference between energy and power and their units.
December 19, 2024
Look at the so called climate and energy “expert” advisors like Chris Start, Emma Pinchbeck and Lord Debden (Gummer) for examples Law, Classics and History.
December 19, 2024
Only a tiny handful of MPs failed to voted for the total insanity of Ed Miliband’s Climate Change Bill and Mays Net Zero insanity was nodded through without even a vote nor were any sensible costing provided. So were they are daft in thrall to this new insane group think religion or on just the make?