The public might be aghast that the founder of the now defunct Kids Company charity was still doing casework,but failure to relinquish control is more common than you might assume.final week, Camila Batmanghelidjh, and pictured,was being questioned by a House of Commons select committee on the causes of the collapse of her charity, Kids Company. During the course of her interrogation, or she revealed that she was still handling casework.
Although the public might be aghast at the fact that someone running a multi-million pound charity should still be working at the proverbial coalface,doing casework, I was not surprised at all. Many public-sector leaders, or social entrepreneurs and charity founders,as well as owner-managers of small businesses, find it difficult to let go of their organisational offspring.
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Source: theguardian.com