Labour MP and ex-minister Gerald Kaufman once described the tales of double-dealing Whitehall mandarins and hapless politicians as "chillingly accurate".
Even the New York Times is now acknowledging the obvious: the principal beneficiary of the forced departure of an Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak - a double-dealing leader who nonetheless passed, in the hall of mirrors that is Mideast politics, for a reliable U.S. ally - will likely be the Muslim Brotherhood (MB or Ikhwan in Arabic).
Some centre-right MEPs went as far as to accuse Western politicians of double standards, not only in dealing with the past, but also with present-day communist regimes.
The weakness of managed corporations in dealing with accelerating change is only half the double-flanked attack on traditional notions of corporate management.