After 40 years hard work, I’m resting by the sea and reflecting on times gone by. I’ve been a traveller you see in the topsy turvey world of changing organisations. I’ve laboured, I’ve taught, I’ve researched, I’ve advised, and I’ve been roundly biffed, as you have, in many reorganisations.
As a retiring academic, I’m supposed to write The Book — a well-researched and referenced tome — drawing together theory and practice in organisational power and politics. Well, having thought about it, I can tell you no-one will read it. It will just gather dust on a few shelves before it is consigned to the bin of history. So, after much thought, I’m going to draw on my rich experiences and write novels — much more fun.
So, come and join me, here by the sea, and hear my stories of the dynamics of power and biffo politics as we journey first to the dark heart of St. Angela’s University Teaching Hospital and all its goings on, then to the Western Theatre to meet its sweet and highly emotional people, and finally, to the mother of all mismatched mergers and its enduring warring tribes.
The posts come once a month but I’ll send beach and weather reports now and then on twitter @AGbythesea
Old Lady by the Sea 