City Slickers

I read an interesting article in the Sunday Times yesterday by Lord Andrew Adonis.

An interesting perspective on the view of Lord Dainton, "the era's great champion of engineering, regretting that the "enhanced engineering" courses he had pioneered to give engineering graduates project management skills had come largely to be taken up by engineers en route to management consultancy, not industrial management as intended". As an engineering graduate in management consultancy I guess it had to be interesting!

The article left me quite optimistic at the prospect of a rise in highly competent people to our profession being one of the likely benefits from the credit crunch.

As this is the 1^st blog of the year, I wish you a successful 2009, and remember – recession is the right time to prepare for growth.