01 Dec 2002
'A broker is a man who invests your money until it's all gone.' Woody Allen said it
01 Dec 2002
| by MATTHEW GWYTHER, Editor
EDITORIAL: Shafts of sunlight in an overcast year - As we come to the end of a tricky 12 months, most British managers will feel they've experienced far more enjoyable years than 2002. Never mind the general economic climate - which maintains a perpetuall
01 Dec 2002
| by BO LERENIUS, group CEO of Associated British Ports Holdings
In my opinion - Chartered Management Institute companion Bo Lerenius, group CEO of Associated British Ports Holdings, believes consistency is what wins the day.
01 Dec 2002
| by EVAN DAVIS, economics editor of the BBC
Cutting room - Germany sheds its factory overalls - but union protocols persist; trains that are the pride of Hull; loaded issue for cash machine operators ... Evan Davis at large.
01 Dec 2002
BRAIN FOOD: It just might work Honesty's pay-off - Managers tend to disregard investment in people, even though great benefits can often come at low cost, or none at all. Here, virtue is more than its own reward, if you believe a study of hotels by Tony S
01 Dec 2002
| by MICHAEL BURD and JAMES DAVIES, Lewis Silkin solicitors,
employment@lewissilkin.com
BRAIN FOOD: Workplace rights, Veteran campaigners - Schroders is facing a multi-million-dollar lawsuit in New York from 56-year-old Sharon Haugh, former chair of its US operation. She claims she was sacked because British-based CEO Michael Dobson 'wanted
01 Dec 2002
| by OCTAVIUS BLACK, managing director of The Mind Gym,
www.themindgym.com
BRAIN FOOD: Route to the top ... Improving your memory - Make a conscious effort to listen. The main reason we don't remember people's names or other vital facts is that we don't take them in properly or make it important to remember them.
01 Dec 2002
| by TERENCE AHERN, an associate of Walker Crips Weddle Beck
BRAIN FOOD: Terence Ahern - If I had to start again - I always wanted to be a partner of a City firm and get to the top - which I managed by my own enterprise. In business, just as in rugby, which I refereed until I was 73, the fundamentals remain the sam
01 Dec 2002
| by HELEN KIRWAN-TAYLOR, helen@kirwantaylor.demon.co.uk
BRAIN FOOD: Are you suffering from ... Corporate anorexia - An offshoot syndrome of the slimming disease and first coined by a Canadian stress institute, corporate anorexia is suffered by a company that cuts staff for fear of becoming fat. Anorexics think
01 Dec 2002
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