Business leaders need to pull together – Lt-Governor
LOCAL business leaders should pull together to help to define a new strategic economic direction for the island, the Lt-Governor has suggested.
In a lunchtime speech to the Institute of Directors, Vice-Admiral Sir Ian Corder proposed that the island needed to ‘make intellectual space and time’ for a rigorous discussion on the future strategic direction of the Bailiwick.
And business interests should be at the heart of that discussion, he said, as he proposed a ‘revitalisation of vision and ambition’.
The debate, he added, should be more than a discussion about the pros and cons of a runway extension.
‘I think there is more that you as business leaders can do here,’ Sir Ian said. ‘I know you air these matters regularly in fora such as this, but I am not sure you have yet really synthesised your thinking into a single, coherent and compelling “business view” which can be put both to government and the public.
‘And I do think business needs to recognise the requirement to educate and to sell its case to the broader public, and their representatives, not all of whom have shared fully in the prosperity of Guernsey’s recent past.'
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