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...“While most firms boast about their love for the partnership model, they often get frustrated with the dysfunctionality of decision making,” Allan Koltin, an accounting sector M&A adviser, told the FT in...
...Even the warmth of a London summer evening and a cool glass of Pol Roger was doing little to raise morale among MPs in Rishi Sunak’s ruling Conservative party, as they contemplated their own political mortality...
...Insiders describe a Number 10 where morale took a severe blow on the June 8 election night, as Mrs May saw her gamble to reinforce the Conservative majority backfire....
...Allan Monks, economist, JPMorgan Productivity over the past couple of years has broadly stagnated, and has been weak even by the UK’s own recent poor standards....
...With the appointment of Alan Stewart as finance director and John Allan as chairman, Tesco’s top management has been overhauled....
...Trained in the brash informal atmosphere of Asda, Mr King was once described as the love child of Archie Norman and Allan Leighton, the pair who revived the price-led retailer by injecting a common touch...
...During the past few months, however, de Gooreynd has seen encouraging signs of economic morale returning to Geneva....
...“Shelves were often unstocked, morale was at rock bottom,” recalls David Tyler, the group’s chairman....
...about the Falklands, the deal with Iran, the judiciary, has nothing to do with the two problems that appear at the top of all opinion polls as people’s chief concerns: crime and inflation,” said Joaquín Morales...
...Then I read Allan Leighton’s advice to businesses for the new year....
...“At the Royal Mail…all the signs are that morale in the company is much better than before,” writes Allan Leighton, the Royal Mail’s chairman, in this latest addition to the management bookshelves....
...Senior management can see this and outcomes such as greater teamwork or improved morale, which they can then put a value on....
...SRU chief executive Allan Munro said it was not possible to go on funding both the Reivers and Glasgow Warriors – the Edinburgh franchise is privately owned....
...Nor is the turnround executive particularly interested in boosting morale – at least not at first. Things may get worse before they get better....
...But the enlightened management style of business leaders such as Allan Leighton, Willy Walsh and Justin King deserves to be applauded for other reasons....
...Both strategies are born of desperation, but which is likely to do more for morale?...
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