Group stink

Patton scooped the 43^rd Academy Awards…winning seven Oscars…including George C Scott as the Best Actor.

Our sixth grade class watched Patton at a cinema in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. Patton’s toughness, determination and common sense approach was an inspiration to a group of impressionable 11-year-old boys.

The theatre is long gone, but the memory remains.Patton still rates as one of my all-time favourite movies.

One of General Patton’s more quotable quotes is...

‘If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking’.

In these times of ‘wokeness’ and ‘virtue signalling’, Patton would have been the squarest of pegs in the roundest of holes.

Playing the go along to get along game was definitely not the General’s style.

Holding people accountable, questioning their reasoning and calling out incompetence can be a real career killer.

These character traits would have disqualified General Patton from a post-military career as a central banker.

Without a PhD in group think, don’t even bother applying for a position in the cossetted world of central bankers.

Central bankers are more Peter Pan than Patton. They never want to grow up and leave school.

Working in central bank Neverland offers them safe shelter from the real world.