Fat Chance?

from Management Issues

Senior and board-level British managers are being targeted by a volunteering charity to spend time on "troubleshooting" assignments in some of the world's poorest countries.

In a move believed to be the first of its kind in the UK, international development charity VSO is searching for managers from the private, public or voluntary sector provide high-level advice and consultancy to organisations fighting poverty in the developing world.

Pete's Points:

I guess my title says it all!

I cannot imagine the 'fat cats' of business wanting to spend their time giving assistance to people without directing things from their comfortable air conditioned offices and their million + dollar salaries!

Still, stranger things have happened! Just look at Bill Gates and Warren Buffet! A bit late in life to develop a conscience so it must be a tax dodge!

Boy, that's too cynical even for me and even at this hour of the morning!

Of course a move to volunteering would get some of the old fogies out of the office and give the new blood a chance so I suspect there will be a lot of encouragement from the lower ranks for such a move.

Of course there is another aspect to this issue - since the capitalist west or the developed nations have always sent things that are past their use by date to the developing world - this sounds a little like a simple continuation of that policy as most of the baby boomers head for early retirement.

I mean, they managed to bugger up the world they live in now for the rest of us, so why not send them to developing nations that they have helped to get to the state they are in now to see if they can improve on their former work! After all, things CAN get worse!