Plain bad management

Having the attributes of good management is that, making use of all available information, those concerned will make an intelligent forecast of an organisation's future direction, plan the means to get there, and develop the organisation to see that long‐range targets are met. On all these counts it is difficult to see how the present Government can escape the charge of being rank bad managers. During the past ten years there has been overwhelming evidence to show that the only way Britain could hold her own in the world was by increasing the quantity and quality of industrial production. Stripped of all the trimmings, this has required two things: increasing capital investment — steadily applied — and an increase in the number of technologists, technicians, and skilled workers.