Gerard Fairtlough CBE

CBE

CBE and C.B.E. are abbreviations for "Commander of the Order of the British Empire", a grade in the Order of the British Empire.Other uses include:* Chemical and Biochemical Engineering...

 (5 September 1930 - 15 December 2007) was an English author, speaker and management thinker.

Born on Hayling Island

Hayling Island

-Leisure activities:Although largely residential, Hayling is also a holiday, windsurfing and sailing centre, the site where windsurfing was invented....

, Hampshire

Hampshire

Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...

, Fairtlough trained initially as a biochemist at Cambridge University. He worked for 25 years in the Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell plc , commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine and one of the six...

 group, where he spent the last 5 years as Chief Executive of Shell Chemicals

Shell Chemicals

Shell Chemicals is the petrochemicals arm of Royal Dutch Shell. The name "Shell Chemicals" refers to the nearly seventy companies engaged in chemicals businesses for Shell, which together make up one of the largest petrochemical producers in the world....

 UK.

In 1980 he founded the biopharmaceutical

Biopharmaceutical

Biopharmaceuticals are medical drugs produced using biotechnology. They include proteins , nucleic acids and living microorganisms like virus and bacteria where the virulence of viruses and bacteria is reduced by the process of attenuation, they can be used for therapeutic or in vivo diagnostic...

s firm Celltech

Celltech

Celltech Group plc was a leading British-based biotechnology business based in Slough. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.-History:...

 and remained its chief executive until 1990. He was subsequently involved in the formation of a number of high-tech businesses.

Fairtlough served as an advisor to several UK government and academic institutions. He was Specialist Advisor to the British House of Commons

British House of Commons

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 Select Committee on Science and Technology, Chair of the Advisory Panel on Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex

University of Sussex

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, and a member of the UK Science and Engineering Council.

Gerard Fairtlough developed and elaborated Triarchy

Triarchy

Triarchy refers to the three fundamental ways of getting things done in organizations: hierarchy, heterarchy and responsible autonomy.All organizations use a mixture of these three ways, but the proportions can differ widely. At present, hierarchy is usually considered essential for all...

 Theory and was the author of The Three Ways of Getting Things Done: Hierarchy, Heterarchy & Responsible Autonomy in Organisations, Creative Compartments: A Design for Future Organisation, and co-author with Julie Allan and Barbara Heinzen of The Power of the Tale: Using Narratives for Organisational Success. He also wrote extensively on the theory and practice of organization design and management and of innovation.

In 1954 Fairtlough married Lisa Betambeau (they had two sons and two daughters); he died in Ryall, Dorset

Ryall, Dorset

Ryall is a small village in the county of Dorset, on the south coast of Great Britain. It is situated roughly midway between the towns of Bridport and Lyme Regis, with the county town of Dorchester about 20 miles to the east. The village lies on the northern slopes of Hardown Hill, about 2 miles...

on 15 December 2007.

He also has six grandchildren: Zoe, Tanya, Aurora, Zachery, Sorrel, Bidwell.