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...Her highly centralised leadership has also dented morale in the commission itself, sidelining senior figures who might otherwise bear some of the load....
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...Meanwhile, Alejandro Varela, head of legal affairs at Fonatur, the state agency in charge of the Maya Train, said injunctions could not stop them from modernising the lines and despite multiplying legal...
...For businesses, it’s critical to look beyond the bottom line, instead focusing on non-monetary aspects like improved staff morale, rising service standards or increased productivity.”...
...takeover of RPC (FT) Blackstone and Apollo reveal profits hit by falling markets (FT) Buyout groups line up €1.5bn-plus bids for Primonial (FT) Palantir slashes its own stock price in a bid to boost morale...
...shareholder (WSJ) CVS Health says Aetna acquisition to close before Thanksgiving (FT) Stifel to acquire Germany’s Mainfirst in preparation for Brexit (FT) Due Diligence is written by Arash Massoudi and Javier...
...The rap, partly a morale booster for the indebted group’s ranks, tells so-called Refinitivees to spread “them wings” and take to the sky, bring the heat “every day till we die” and to change “tha game and...
...“The morale at firms where lawyers are competing for who brings in more clients tends to be lower than in firms were partners are treated equally,” Martin Lipton, co-founder of Wachtell, told the Financial...
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com; @robertshrimsley Illustration by Lucas Varela...
...“What that does to employee morale and in terms of aligning the company’s interests with shareholders’ interests is really significant. This is going to be a seminal change at this bank.”...
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com; Twitter: @robertshrimsley Illustration by Lucas Varela...
...He did, however, overcome poor staff morale and public criticism by reforming the way the OFT investigated cases to impose two of the three biggest competition fines in the UK....
...The fall from grace of Javier Duarte, who has asked for leave of absence as governor of Veracruz to fight corruption allegations, has been a similarly slow but less gracious affair....
...Javier Diez de Medina, who works for San Cristóbal and also represents an association of midsized (and international) mining companies, says governments before Morales’ also failed to develop mining policies...
...For months, Abel was to be played by Spanish actor Javier Bardem. When the script was finally ready, he quit....
...On Mr Lafley’s return, Javier Escalante, analyst at Consumer Edge Research, said: “This confirms that morale was an issue [within P&G] and they needed somebody to restore that....
...Javier Escalante, an analyst at Consumer Edge Research, said morale at P&G was as low today as it was when Mr Lafley took over from Durk Jager in 2000....
...Singapore was hosting two big commodities conferences – one for mining and one for grain trading – over in Geneva, industry executives, government officials and academics gathered for what almost felt like a morale...
...Mr Morales has warned that it could take “four to five months” for a relief well to cap the spill....
...Gaddafi has now become an end in itself for the west.And on a lighter note . . . the Daily Beast challenges you to distinguish Col Gaddafi’s outfits from a doorman’s. 22.17 Further on the oil reaction: Javier...
...Despite the recrudescent populism of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Evo Morales in Bolivia, a more sober style of democratic politics is cementing its hold across the region....
...But despite the fiery rhetoric of Bolivia’s leftist president, Evo Morales, there are reasons to believe the result will be less onerous for oil companies than might be expected....
...What a contrast with the man who took Mexico to the finals four years ago, Javier Aguirre, so clean-cut he might have been a Procter & Gamble executive....
...Mr Morales, Bolivia’s first elected indigenous president, enjoys an approval rating of 80 per cent. Additional reporting by Javier Blas...
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