History is written by the victors.
(That’s not us)
Thorburn struck me instinctively as a blend of Tim Shaws Demtel sales push and Jimmy Swaggarts evangelical hyperbole. Add in a touch of your local used car salesman for seasoning.
How we let ourselves be talked into this bloke , I’ll never , ever understand.
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Ran a squillion dollar business.
I’m sure he knows a whole lot about that business - but it doesn’t mean he knows anything else.
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Alarm bells was when Tim Watson backed him in.
I don’t think he lives in the real world.
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It’s the whole “if they get to that level they must be good at what they do.”
They are good at what they do.
Self promotion
Make others carry the can.
Have a Teflon suit.
Be a good bloke
Join the club, golf club, tennis club, Melbourne club, whichever club gets you the right connections.
Be a good bloke.
Blather.
Never say anything of any consequence.
Know how to recruit good staff.
Good staff will get the job done.
They will also be the fall guys.
Blather.
Be a good bloke.
Once they are on the way up, there is no stopping them.
Because all those other good blokes (and women) who have ridden the same path to success, (who are not great judges of character) will vouch for you. And you will vouch for them.
The thing is, they don’t have to be good at their job. That’s for the staff.
Edit. One final thing.
They will look you straight in the face…. and lie.
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Doesn’t even mean that
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Didn’t start said business. A monkey could run a big Australian bank.
No a monkey couldn’t. That is why these manager people don’t get paid peanuts.
I sometimes argue with milla so I did my research on this one and turns out he’s right
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That surprises me. He was appointed as part of the external review/CEO appointment team. They obviously saw his working style up close and were impressed with how he went about it.
They ACTIVELY asked him to apply for the role of CEO. He had to take time to consider it and then apply and recuse himself from the external review. The club didn’t go into his appointment with their eyes closed. They sought him out and asked him to apply then gave him the role.
The bottom line is the club screwed this up, not him. Direct your (plural) anger at them, not him
As pure speculation, they negotiated his resignation with a promise of a negotiated payout and have now started playing hardball on said payout. Therefore he is bringing in lawyers to make sure they stick to what was probably agreed to. But that is just speculation on my part.
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Interesting take iceman 
Well it is pure specualtion. However they must have had some discussions about what was required to resolve this, different options to take. I just think if one of them was resigning then it would involve some sort of payout to make it easier.
Wasn’t a great end of work year for Timmy on Sen, first he said that a review wasn’t needed at Essendon and then he fell head over heels for Thorburn.
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I agree 
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So did I - Tim had me convinced and a friend who had worked at NAB gave him a glowing endorsement……neither of us knew about the religious stuff
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Must’ve been good seeing as nab was worst of the big 4 in performance during his tenure.
Not sure - that’s just what my friend told me. He was in the bad bank part of NAB
And a very good friend of mine now a CEO herself of a v decent software company in Sydney thought he was an absolute prick when dealing with him. A complete ■■■■■■■■ and bully. Her words.
We dodged a bullet. Enough said
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They’re just a mouthpiece. That financial institution has decades worth of structural refinement before a hump like Thornburn takes over.
He’s clearly a yes man. Traditional corporate institutions love those cucks.
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