1. Scotland
1.1 Anti-Apartheid Activist
1.1.1 Alistair Darling
1.2 Potato Market
1.2.1 Working with Andrew Marr
1.2.2 Earned Student Grant in a day
1.3 NUS
1.3.1 President
1.3.2 Thatcher Time
1.3.3 13 Companies
1.3.3.1 Inc. Endsleigh
1.3.4 Turnover £80 milion
1.3.5 17 employees
1.4 Royal College of Nursing
1.4.1 3 times a week on the BBC
1.4.1.1 Known as the District Nurse by Today
1.4.2 Nursing Standard
1.4.2.1 Biggest Selling Weekly Trade Magazine
1.4.2.2 Owned by trade union
1.5 Neil Kinnock
1.5.1 Charles Clarke
1.5.2 Politics Business Management
1.6 Programme for New Vice Chancellors
1.6.1 By me
1.6.1.1 A scary 90 minutes
1.6.2 "Politics is the Highest Form of Management"
2. Politicians
2.1 Roarers
2.2 A few changers
2.3 Loaded with Values
2.3.1 e.g. US Liberal
2.4 Dictionary Definition
2.4.1 A politician or political leader (from Greek "polis") is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making.
2.4.2 An alternative to War or the Law!
3. Business
3.1 Voluntary Relationship
3.2 Persuasion
3.3 Market Share
3.4 Conservative Summer Ball
3.4.1 David Cameron speech
3.4.2 My observation re. Market Share
3.4.2.1 Kinnock's 11.6m loss greater than Cameron's 10m win
3.4.2.2 It's the situation at that time that matters
4. Me
4.1 Weekly Media Trouble Maker
4.1.1 Needed a break
4.2 Head of Press at RCN
4.3 But I wanted a go for myself
4.4 Saw Events
4.5 Became a Publisher
4.5.1 Neil Stewart Associates
4.6 Sold
4.7 Bought Back
4.8 On-Line TV
4.8.1 Public Policy
4.8.2 Future Niche
4.9 Line / Online Mix
5. "Half of all politics is the management of hatred"
5.1 Kinnock
5.1.1 Brief to me
5.1.1.1 Get Trade Unions out of my Hair
5.1.1.2 Get militants out of Liverpool
5.1.1.3 Sort out the IRA in Northern Ireland
5.1.1.4 Labour Party Executive Committee
5.1.1.5 National Front Strategy
5.1.2 I got that HALF
5.2 Vision is not enough
5.3 You have to deal with hatred
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6. Coalition
6.1 They don't remember Thatcher years
6.2 Looks promising but not sure about experience
6.3 Test of Management of Conflicting Interests
6.4 What skills will they need?
6.5 Generation X
6.5.1 Lost plot
6.5.1.1 Not Office
6.5.1.2 Not Job
6.5.1.3 Just Play!
6.5.2 Want it all in an age of austerity
6.5.3 Some youth in Southern Europe are turning nasty
7. Common Features
7.1 In charge
7.1.1 They all lost but Cameron took charge
7.1.1.1 Post Election Offer to Lib Dems
7.1.1.1.1 They had all lost!
7.1.1.1.2 Decisive
7.1.1.1.3 Comparable to Disraeli's transformation of Conservative Party in the 1850s
7.2 Office not a job
7.2.1 Has been a bit Jobby
7.2.1.1 Expenses
7.2.2 Responsibility
7.2.3 A duty
7.2.4 Privilege
7.2.5 Lonely at the Top
7.2.5.1 You lose friends
7.2.5.2 Difficult choices
7.2.6 You need Emotional Intelligence
8. Austerity
8.1 Innovation Driver
8.1.1 Online Only Papers Perhaps
8.1.2 Let's see what Rupert Murdoch does!
9. Cameron
9.1 Will take on Challenges
9.1.1 Environment
9.1.2 Business Malpractice
9.1.3 Large Interest Groups
9.2 Populist
9.3 Can he?
9.3.1 Overcome his fears
9.3.2 And take action
9.4 BUT can they deal with Hatred?
9.4.1 Have they prepared themselves?
9.4.2 Suppliers
9.4.3 Customers
9.4.4 Media
10. University of East Anglia
10.1 E-mail controversy
10.2 Media attention about Climate Change
10.3 Senior people avoided the issue
10.4 The US media eagle (just done BP) swooped in
10.5 Trauma
10.5.1 Affected the institution's mental health
10.5.2 Returned to my District Nurse role
10.5.3 Helped them to get out of the eagles claws
11. Sectors
11.1 Business
11.1.1 London Centric
11.1.2 Looking South
11.1.2.1 Netherlands
11.1.2.2 Germany
11.1.3 Recovering
11.2 Public
11.2.1 Pain
12. "Do you have an Office or a Job?"
12.1 Do the latter and you will fail us
12.2 Do the former and you will lead us to a better future
12.3 Thoughts
12.3.1 No Financial Product can deliver over 40 years now, like pensions did
12.3.2 How do you motivate people?
12.3.3 Leadership has been damaged
12.4 Offer
12.4.1 I have learn't a lot from the best politicians
12.4.2 Come to my conferences and I will share it with you
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