Bill McAnenyArgues that management skills training does not work - instead you end up with something like Frankenstein’s monster, a bunch of ill fitting parts, rather than a complete and coherent person. Leadership must come from within and managers must learn to understand themselves and those around them before meaningful change can occur. Refreshing and challenging ideas for anyone looking for lasting continuous and transformational development in their organisations. 

Ministerial committees, Whitehall departments working together and collaboration between Whitehall and local councils have failed to deliver joined up public services. Disillusionment within Government about the ineffective top down, command and control management model has become clear with the announcement of a new model for implementing the Neighbourhood Renewal Action Plan.The new approach involves a transfer of power from Whitehall to the frontline. 

The Government has launched the Neighbourhood Renewal Action Plan to turn around the fortunes of England’s most deprived neighbourhoods, with the aim of making them places where people will want to live and work. The Plan, with a 10 - 20 year horizon is based on the work of 18 Policy Action Teams and has been drawn up by the Social Exclusion Unit following more than two years of consultation.