Recently the Mail Online broke a story about how the BBC technology chief spent £639 on taxi ride . These sorts of expenses are nothing new. The BBC, as well as the and House of Commons and House of Lords, are legacy institutions. Introducing change in legacy institutions is very difficult. The critical issue is how do you manage to adapt an old culture that is used to doing things in own way when that culture is also financially supported and so has no reason to change. [...]

I recently appeared on the BBC World Service to discuss intimate relationships in the workplace. My research has found that 60% of workers during their lifetimes have an intimate relationship in the workplace. By ‘intimate’ I mean something beyond friendship but not necessarily up to physical contact — the Greeks had a word for it: agape, meaning “divine, unconditional,
self-sacrificing, active, volitional, and thoughtful love”.
You can listen to the clip on the BBC site here . Nada and I discussed this topic in further detail in our book Intimacy .

Following on the heels of the MP expenses scandal, the issue of expenses at another public body, the BBC, has recently been in the news . I was hired by the BBC for some particular tasks. Then their major issue was cutting their costs, and the issue continues to remain unaddressed today. Well, not entirely unaddressed—a number of directors general have tried to reduce the cost base of the BBC over the years, and the message from within the BBC is that costs have partly been reduced, but there are a lot more still to take out.
In the press, current director general Mark Thompson has defended his ‘high for a public servant’ salary as entirely justified as it’s only one third of what a private sector executive in his position would get. I’m not sure if this is a fair position, but I do know [...]