Too many chiefs is Ron Drake’s explanantion for the management losses at Cincom Systems UK: when he was appointed managing director, Drake inherited Terry Booth’s management team of six, plus his own sales team of five; he says that has made four redundancies partly because 10 managers is an unmanageable number, and partly to reflect product and structural changes within the company; he also says that he is interested in recruiting salespeople, which might be of interest to the 44 unfortunates who no longer have employment with Software AG (UK) (CI No 1,534).
