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...Email me your thoughts at scott.chipolina@ft.com....
...One of the many people I interviewed in the US was a guy who’d spent 10 years out of his job. He’d got to a very high level of seniority and he’d basically had plenty of money....
...“Opec is definitely now in the driver’s seat,” Scott Sheffield, chief executive of shale giant Pioneer Natural Resources, recently told me....
...In 2006, the buyout groups piled new debt on to the company so they could take back most of the equity they’d put in when they bought it a couple of years earlier....
...Then they realised the machine they’d handsomely profited from — the traditional TV box — was under threat of extinction....
...That’d be a fun way to hedge against the bad news at Tungsten....
...; the higher the exec, the less effort you should make....
...And I think you’d have to give us pretty good grades in terms of my top execs, there is not one who could leave not leave the company for five to ten times what they make today....
...I wouldn’t have very much to do [with the other divisions] at all, I mean I’d meet them monthly at a board meeting when I was chief exec of GNM, but I never see them between board meetings....
...Scott Chairman, Avocet Mining Professor Patrick Minford Cardiff Business School Gary Mond Managing Director, Redcliffe Training Associates S....
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