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Tanveer Ahmed

Time to bring back the corporate bureaucrat

The cult of the manager as entrepreneur lies underneath many of our recent scandals. We have to start thinking like institutions again.

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There is a tension at the highest levels of business leadership, between that of a corporate bureaucrat and that of a dynamic visionary.

The latest banking scandal at Westpac, following on from the exposed wrongdoings during the Hayne royal commission, are illustrations of this tension.

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Tanveer Ahmed is an author and practising psychiatrist. Connect with Tanveer on Twitter.

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