Governance is the key to succession
THE RIGHT form of governance is critical to good succession planning, says the organiser of a recent two-day summit on the subject held at Massey University.
Fortunately, most Kiwis don’t think a Barry Crump novel (Wild Pork and Watercress) is a good blueprint for parenting and can recognise that taking little kids bush for four years, involving them in crimes and putting a child in danger by starting (and losing) a gun battle with police is not the resume of Dad of the Year.
There are no winners in this tragedy, particularly not those three kids, and the efforts of a few to canonise Phillips as some sort of rebel-hero could set a dangerous precedent; nobody wants to see any feral copycats trying this sort of thing ever again.
