01 Sep 1999
UK: Techknow - Ask Bill Gates. - Q. How do you feel about junk e-mail? Can it be avoided?
01 Sep 1999
| by CHRIS BLACKHURST, deputy editor of The Express.
UK: Blackhurst's diary - In which our diarist ponders Marjorie Scardino's love
of America, witnesses strange ... - Blackhurst's diary - In which our diarist ponders Marjorie Scardino's love of America, witnesses strange table manners in Soho and wonders
01 Sep 1999
UK: BRAIN FOOD - Global business - L'Expansion on great business myths. - As machines replace workers, production relocates, factories close their doors and Asian competition gets fiercer, the days of the French industrial worker are numbered, say the ex
01 Sep 1999
UK: BRAIN FOOD - It just might work - Not to be snoozed at. - Managers who are 'asleep on the job' are a serious liability - or are they? At Deloitte Consulting in Pittsburgh management has installed a 'napping room' so that executives can restore their
01 Sep 1999
UK: BRAIN FOOD - Workplace rights - C'est un fair cop? - Employers reeling from the shock of the Working Time Regulations and the 48-hour working week should spare a thought for their counterparts across La Manche. France has a weekly maximum of 39 hours
01 Sep 1999
UK: BRAIN FOOD - Speaking out - J Mays, Head of Design, Ford Global. - Making a speech to open the stylishly put together 'moving objects exhibition' at the Royal College of Art, celebrating 30 years of vehicle design, is a tall order.
01 Sep 1999
UK: BRAIN FOOD - Executive pills - Lotonex. - While bowel function is the butt of many a bad joke, for those who suffer from IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) it is no laughing matter. Lotonex - a new drug from Glaxo-Wellcome - promises relief to the 20% of
01 Sep 1999
UK: BRAIN FOOD - Sir John Banham - If I had to start again .. - Truth to tell, there is very little that I would do differently if I could start again. I have been blessed with more than my fair share of good luck - which, as Napoleon recognised long ago
01 Sep 1999
UK: BRAIN FOOD - Perk life - In their good books. - It may be good to talk, but at Orange, it's even better to read. The company's reading groups allow employees to discuss the best of modern literature. Participants enjoy the intellectual cut and thrust
01 Sep 1999
| by DAVID SMITH, economics editor of the Sunday Times.
UK: DAVID SMITH - ECONOMIC TRUTHS - THE CRUELLEST CUTS PAY DIVIDENDS/UK
productivity appears to be catching ... - DAVID SMITH - ECONOMIC TRUTHS - THE CRUELLEST CUTS PAY DIVIDENDS/UK productivity appears to be catching up with Europe as manufacturers retu