Dust off the Plans

Knowing what to do when everything starts to fall apart around you is a key skill that Politicians and Directors need. Forget competence when things are going well. It’s when they aren’t that the true mettle and character of leadership shows through.

Just as Greece is lining itself up for another round of Ponzy scheme investments, which are seemingly designed to keep the European banks from revealing the true scale and interconnectivity of the bond debts. We lose the head of the IMF to allegations of a serious assault, which not only exposes the fragility of the European Community, but the gulf in culture between America and France.

The visual imagery of a handcuffed over paid foreign banker was too much for the American media circus to miss whilst in France the assumption of guilt over innocence was viewed with a slightly more Gallic perspective.

As an unfolding crisis it has everything: from raising questions over standards of leadership through political intrigue to conspiracy theories. Added to which the opposing cultural views expressed in the American and French media all to be followed by a bun fight over who takes the job. Will it be a European pro the status quo and the funding of the Greek debt or a “non” European, who may just see the problem from a slightly different perspective. Who needs reality TV?

Timing and positioning will be all important. What is clear is that whoever gets the job they will have to dust off the plans for saving the Euro and plan to spend some time understanding the Greek economy - that’s if the ash cloud does not get in the way.