The removal of Rick Wagoner of General Motors and Christian Streiff of Citroen would seem to suggest that those seen as being responsible for poor business performance are being replaced by people not tarnished with the mistakes of the past.

One has to ask if this is the beginning of a cull of top business people seen as responsible for causing the financial crisis and whether it will satisfy people’s anger of like the French revolution simply call for more blood?

BT has announced 10,000 job cuts today, with unemployment rising and the dark clouds over manufacturing companies such as General Motors is there an end of the reluctance for companies to make their talent redundant?

It poses a question: Will companies ensure that they identify the best talent to survive the recession or assume that talent can be picked up when needed when an upturn comes?

History would indicate that once talent is lost it’s very difficult to replace.