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            <title>Remuneration rumblings</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I have acted as a CEO in turnaround situations many times. And let me tell you - the argument put forward by those who would justify the grotesque amounts paid particularly (but not exclusively) to CEOs is baloney.
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            <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:43:05 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>The worst case scenario, honestly</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sometime, no matter how positive we try to paint the picture, the paint runs instead of drying, and the whole thing becomes a mess of conflicting and competing colours that refuse to fit into our scheme of things. 
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:32:39 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>The GM syndrome</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Late in October 2008 as the senior executives of one of America's longest established companies mulled over the most recent financial statements it became clear that it was not going to be able to pay its bills going into the New Year.  
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Denial</title>
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There is a tendency to ignore signals when times are good and then to panic when things have turned a little sour. However, at any point of time in the life a business, there are certain disciplines that will help determine not only where you are at that moment in time but where you are heading. 
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            <pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Don’t blame the workers</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I just got back from holidays and noticed a lot of comments on a letter from a "business owner" (http://www.smartcompany.com.au/Free-Articles/The-Briefing/20090220-A-letter-from-a-business-owner-to-his-employees.html/). I suspect that it was a letter that I received some time ago through the internet and signed "the boss" and which indicated the author's disenchantment with some political regime that was mis-spending his or her tax dollars.  
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            <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:19:49 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>You can’t beat arithmetic!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[There is some simple arithmetic of which people running a business (including big businesses) ought to be aware if they want to survive.
What is compelling about arithmetic is its inescapable logic. Two plus two always equals four. There are motivational people who try to convince us that two plus two can equal five, but arithmetically, that is not possible. The consequences of accurate addition and subtraction are inescapably determined by the rules.
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            <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Cashflow and survival</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This is a story about cash. Cash is the life blood of a business. Now, I know that everyone will say “so what, everyone knows that”.
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:17:39 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Get off the bus (this one’s broken)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[While the change of the last digit that marks some fictitious point in our history we call the “year” only takes a second, and in a sense is meaningless, the fact that it occurs during a break in our lives for those who are employed, gives rise to an opportunity for reflection.
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            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Lessons from history</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Short term concentration on KPIs which are tied up with incentives have always been and always will be a recipe for disaster. LOUIS COUTTS]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:05:39 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Carrot on a stick remuneration is bad news</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Bribery: Another word for incentive payments. LOUIS COUTTS]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:06:36 GMT</pubDate>
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