This has implications for who really ought to be managing the organisations.

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Damian Green's answer is that a good PCC will basically be someone who's an efficient bureaucrat - good at managing large organisations and the conflicts within them.

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The single service chiefs would also get greater responsibility (and accountability) for managing their own organisations, a prospect they welcomed.

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For Business Scotland, I learned from Joanna Baker, managing director of the Edinburgh International Festival, that continental European arts organisations are having to adjust, some of them very fast, to a sharp cut in their subsidy.

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