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The events leading up to the sudden departure of Stephen Ainger from the Charities Aid Foundation are still so recent that it is difficult to he sure about exactly what went wrong. Perhaps it will be the subject of someone's PhD in due course.
As in most derailments, there was probably an unholy confluence of factors that would not have caused too much trouble if they had come along one by one. A personality and business style shaped in the oil industry may not have endeared Ainger to some colleagues steeped in a voluntary sector ethic; the task of modernising the hack office seems to have involved worrying...