Hello, welcome to Business Weekly. I'm Lucy Burton. On the show today, we're going to delve

into the Chinese meat market to find out whether mock pork could ever take off. It seems unlikely,

but there is a growing desire for new forms of protein, and we'll hear from the people producing them.

Staying with the food theme, we'll also ask if Nestle's decision to stop putting fair trade cocoa into kick-cat bars is bad news for West African farmers.

And we'll hear from the rugby club boss who warns that the coronavirus pandemic threatens the future of the sport. And it's as the world

starts to look towards the future, towards the new normal of living alongside the threat of COVID-19,

that more than ever we need good leadership. We need political leaders who can manage that

fragile balance between reopening economies and keeping people safe. And we need political leaders who can manage that fragile balance between reopening economies and keeping people safe, and we need business leaders who can think imaginatively about how their companies can survive or even thrive during this time.

However, good leadership can be hard to come by. How often have we all moaned about a decision a boss has taken,

or privately thought that we could do better ourselves? Why is it that incompetent people

often get promoted, particularly into middle management? It's a question my colleague Ed Butler

has been considering in this report. Most of us, I'm guessing, may remember calamitous work

experiences in our youth. I myself recall once interviewing a senior British politician and

accusing him of representing the other party, the one he was opposing. The memory of that still

causes me to lurch awake at night in a cold sweat. Perhaps more universal than private disasters like this, though,

is the belief that the person guiding us at work, our boss, is themselves entirely incompetent.

I came across quite a lot of incompetence.

I mean, it became so bad that I took the very drastic step in the end of buying my own company, which cost

1.8 million pounds. And I had to borrow all of that from the bank. So if you think that I'd

borrowed 1.8 million pounds in order to avoid having a boss at all, that shows you how desperate

I was to get away from incompetent bosses. That's entrepreneur and former City of London banker Heather

McGregor. She's now dean of the Harriet Watt Business School in Edinburgh. Do you know, I very

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