No It was nt he was a retired Group Captain who got employed as a director of things he did not understand.Stuck his nose into things he did not understand and made stupid comments that embarrassed the RBL.

Oh! so he may well be a disciple of Adam Crozier then.

The world is full of these people like the woman employed many years ago to run a major toy company. After a year they were so anxious to be rid of her that they eventually made her an offer she couldn’t refuse. The story was they offered to pay her all the money she would have earnt during the rest of her contract (which still had several years to run) plus a golden handshake and a new company car of her choice. Appparently she had done so much damage to the company in a year that they believed that this was a cheaper alternative to continuing her employment!
She walked and within weeks was working for another business and, no doubt, managed to cause similar levels of damage to her new venture.
Whenever I have started a new job I have always tried to find out what I need to do and how my input affects the overall running of things. It is a good idea to have some idea of what you are involved with and how it all works before you start making major changes otherwise it is like trying to tune an engine with no mechanical knowledge and no workshop manual – the result is inevitably a major blow up.