There's nothing remotely original about Allan Leighton, the going plural bit was copied from Sir Peter Parker; the former British Rail Chairman, the Fear Uncertainity Doubt/Bull**** Command& Control, from the Boardroom down, comes from IBM in the 60's, used by many businesses in the 80's. Problem was some had Harold Beale moments & jumped ship to form little companies like Dell, Compaq etc.
Walmart in the US have 48? lawsuits against them , for dubious employment practices, they tend to "avoid" Trade Unions, why do you think Stephen Byers put him there?
They have a Fordist 40's style of management, everything is very regimented as to what a line manager can do, his superior and so forth.
The Simplicity Officer ? !, more like Simpleton !, in what he's done to this Industry, actually it's a American 90's style , the idea is everything has to be so simple so a absolute beginner can understand it, a Royal Mail ML4, SM?
He sent coathangers round to Asda Managers with " No jacket required on them", RM managers stopped wearing jackets and started wearing B&W, same colours as Prison Officers?!
The Homespun stuff is actually Sam Walton's style, clear and direct? communication, Sam's mini plane, fatally crashed into a electricity plyon, couldn't have happened to a nicer person eh!
Colleague shares " Give them shares, they may think they've a stake in the business , but you can get away with paying them less".
The stuff from DOMs , posties paid for eight, working six, that's similar to the Asda timetheft idea, a employee won £18K in a ET , the tape showing him taking necessary medication mysteriously went missing.Asda were fined by a ET, for preference exercise forms to staff advocating local not National pay bargaining. The GMB took Asda to court for it.