01 Dec 2001
'Search all of your parks in all of your cities and you will not find a statue of a committee' - David Ogilvy said it.
01 Dec 2001
| by RUFUS OLINS, editor-in-chief, MATTHEW GWYTHER, editor
EDITORIAL: Another year of living dangerously - December. The end of a year that began quite promisingly and concluded with most people eager to see the back of it. Who would have thought 12 months ago, with world economies growing at a respectable rate a
01 Dec 2001
| by MARK ABRAHAMS
IN MY OPINION: Institute of Management companion Mark Abrahams, CEO
of Fenner, urges manufacturers to maintain their creativity in the face
of recession - Life is tough for manufacturers. Increasing energy costs and competition from countries with low lab
01 Dec 2001
| by EVAN DAVIS, economics editor, BBC
CUTTING ROOM: Pity the poor dancers; what the wind-up of Railtrack
really means; a strange summary of America's achievements; Finland's
finesse ... Evan Davis at large - How glamorous the life of a broadcast journalist can be. I've just been talking at a
01 Dec 2001
BRAIN FOOD: It just might work - Beyond Machiavelli - The successful manager is no mean Machiavelli. However, according to Arizona professor Robert Cialdini in the Harvard Business Review, if you can master the following six not-so-innocent tricks you can
01 Dec 2001
BRAIN FOOD: Unlikely managers - Christmas tree grower - The Tree
Barn, Greenfield Farm, Oxfordshire - Name: Andrew Ingram
01 Dec 2001
| by MICHAEL BURD and JAMES DAVIES, Lewis Silkin solicitors,
e-mail: employment@lewissilkin.com
BRAIN FOOD: Workplace rights - Emotional constraints - Many romances blossom in the workplace, but the break-up of relationships is a common source of sexual harassment claims. And in America, it's not uncommon for employees to bring claims alleging favou
01 Dec 2001
WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM? - SHOULD I TURN PREDATOR'S MOLE?
01 Dec 2001
| by OCTAVIUS BLACK, co-founder, The Mind Gym, www.themindgym.com
BRAIN FOOD: Making stress work for you - Appreciate that some stress can be useful - without it we would be bored and less effective. A recent survey found that nine out of 10 Londoners experience stress at work but that 50% are still happy with their job
01 Dec 2001
| by LORD POWELL was foreign affairs adviser to Margaret Thatcher and
John Major, and chairs Sagitta Asset Management
BRAIN FOOD: Lord Powell - If I had to start again - My secret ambition has hovered between being a conductor, a concert pianist and playing rugby for Wales. But since none of them was ever in reach, I settled for a more mundane existence. And I did manage