Summary
IT'S not quite up there with simultaneously being head coach of Rangers and Celtic, joint marketing executive for Spurs and Arsenal or shared motivational guru for the American and European RyderCup squads. On balance it should prove marginally less hazardous than brokering peace in the Middle East, or having Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams round for the same Sunday brunch. It should not, with luck, be any more challenging than training George Bush for Higher English, or persuading the Make Poverty History campaign that Donald Trump would be the very dab as patron.
Still and all, it will take a very special set of talents to make a fist of one of the more, em, unusual job opportunities newly on the market. Step forward the woman orman with the chutzpah, the vision and the body armour to take on the role of, deep breath, Glasgow-Edinburgh collaboration manager. Backed by both city councils and Scottish Enterprise, with start up money from a Scottish Executive kitty, the venture has no shortage of high- profile godparents. But is it a mission impossible, as all manner of failed joined ventures in the past might seem to indicate, or an inspired bid to harness complementary civic attributes in a world where the city region is recognised as a major economic driver? The website to which would-be candidates are directed carefully notes that there are "many challenges to be surmounted", and acknowledges the existence of "historic rivalries."See the full content of this document
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Wanted: Person to Tackle One of the Toughest Jobs On Earth
Well, yes. To the untutored eye of the foreign investor or transatlantic tourist, these may well seem irrelevances. What could be more natural, looking at the map of wur small but perfectly formed Scotland, than concluding that two conurbations with a motorway link, a shuttle r...
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