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Mr Grimsdale was a genial civil servant in the excellent Norman Wisdom comedy, The Square Peg. Set during the Second World War, the first half of the film focuses on the clash between the council workmen’s drive to complete road maintenance outside the base and the army’s attempts to continue the war effort without Norman Wisdom’s mishaps and shenanigans.

Rather than focusing on their respective tasks the characters spend their time fighting each other rather than cooperating to both ‘keep the arteries of Britain open’ and fighting the enemy. Mr Grimsdale serves as a metaphor to highlight the failures that result in communications breakdown, the failure of operating within silos and not focusing on achieving common goals between stakeholders.