Hints and tips:
...In calm times, bankers dress themselves up in free-market language and talk about their profits and business plans as if they were selling hamburgers, laptops or holidays....
...So start building up you as an individual doing it and maybe talk to some friends about it, and you’ll find exactly the same position....
...Why isn’t the Internet an option?” And you know, this is why I love being on social media because you learn, you’re not just there to teach them. I’m there to learn and to absorb as well....
...Even if their business is doing twice as well as the single person they might think, actually, now isn’t my moment. So I think, you know, timing is all important....
...But that’s quite an interesting reflection really on our system. The prime minister, in a funny way, doesn’t have as much power as he’s sometimes made out to have....
...They take an interest in you and that you can learn and guide. These are rewarding human emotions that go beyond trying to get shareholder return out of an individual who reports to you....
...So he’s kind of an outsider and an insider in the business. Tim HaywardWhen your brand is built up as being all about a kind of incredible purity of artistic integrity, about food . . ....
...individual....
...And when you’re talking to business leaders — as I know you do a lot — what did they cite as key characteristics that come up again and again as great attributes in a staff member?...
...These would be reasons enough for the FT to be launching this initiative. But now feels like an especially important juncture to be doing so....
...The cloud of uncertainty that will continue to hang over businesses in relation to the ultimate EU-UK relations will keep business investment at bay for the large part of this year....
...I don’t try and sell anybody on doing business. I just had a woman come in a week ago and my advice [was], if you’ve got a business, keep it.”...
...Once an individual has spotted a possible consequence or a present ill-doing, the challenge is to be able to have the courage to report it....
...So while Chinese share prices generally have fallen this year, those of these banks fell even more. The sector has reported a 30 per cent decline, underperforming the Hang Seng index by 14 per cent....
...I wondered: what is this all about? This wasn’t what Bank of England was about, as far as I was concerned. It wasn’t what my area was doing....
...You can’t stereotype a leader – just because somebody is a gregarious, big character, it doesn’t make them any better as a leader, necessarily, than an introspective, shy individual....
...As the UN Secretary General said earlier this month pointedly and persuasively ‘millions of lives quite literally hang in the balance’. The calendar says we are half way from 2000 to 2015....
...Just as there are few academically trained senior managers in China, there is an even greater shortage of Western-trained academics, those who can teach the academic content of a western-style economics,...
...This reinforced Delaware’s reputation for being deliberately soft on managers in order to attract business....
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