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<item><title>Profile: Polly McMaster, CEO, The Fold</title>
<description><![CDATA[mong business woman there is a truth which is universally acknowledged – This is the fact that it is very difficult for women to buy appropriate business-wear.    Men have their uniforms. At the corporate-end there are suits in varied shades of grey a choice of ties and sensible shoes. In the creative-space there are equally predictable combinations of brogues chinos designer jeans and so on. Dressing by numbers.  Not only do women struggle with what to wear but also where to buy their working clothes.  While entire shopping areas are dedicated to male business suits – London’s Savile Row for example – there are no such sources of easy inspiration for women.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Profile: Polly McMaster, CEO, The Fold</title>
<description><![CDATA[Among business women there is a truth which is universally acknowledged – the fact that it is very difficult for women to buy appropriate business-wear.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>The path to power</title>
<description><![CDATA[Do leaders get “selected” by the times they live in or “self-select” – put themselves forward because they recognise this is their time?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Rethinking the responsibility of business leaders</title>
<description><![CDATA[What is the primary responsibility of business leaders today? Is it to make a financial return for their shareholders? Or is it to contribute more broadly to the welfare of employees and society as a whole?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Attention deficit</title>
<description><![CDATA[Firing up your neurons of choice from ‘The Influence of Selective Attention and Inattention to Products on Subsequent Choice.’ Journal of Consumer Research.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Mobile numbers</title>
<description><![CDATA[A happy side effect of the mobile revolution is an array of stunning stats.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Profile: David Pitt-Watson, consultant, investor and author</title>
<description><![CDATA[Consultant investor and author David Pitt-Watson occupies a unique niche.  “How and why do businesses take the sorts of decisions that they do? What are the ones that work? What are the ones that don’t work?”]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>The new oil</title>
<description><![CDATA[The British social philosopher Charles Handy celebrated his 80th birthday in 2012. His work provides a powerful li<span></span>nk between the leading pioneers of management thinking and the future of work. Ideas really are the new oil. Stuart Crainer examines Handy’s unique contribution.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Making it happen</title>
<description><![CDATA[The obstacles we noted while daunting and systemic are not insurmountable. With these as background we next present our recommendations for impact at scale.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>M WORLD: Where we are</title>
<description><![CDATA[What is unique about mobile technology is that it has achieved unprecedented penetration. Compare the spread of mobile phones to the dispersion of other technologies and the sheer force of the momentum becomes clear.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>M-KOPA: Let there be light</title>
<description><![CDATA[Many of us take electric lighting for granted. Flick a switch and the world is illuminated. For millions of people as the sun sinks below the horizon their lives disappear into the flickering shadows cast by a kerosene lamp.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>THE M IN FUTURE</title>
<description><![CDATA[Rajesh Chandy and Kamalini Ramdas look to the future role of mobile phones in changing the world and provide a blueprint for what needs to change to make this reality.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Banks’ ‘love affair’ with debt and its consequences</title>
<description><![CDATA[An important contributory factor to the banking crisis has been the implicit and explicit guarantees by the State on bank deposits. They have at least in the past provided a source of cheap finance for other activities of banks particularly investment banking. The value of those guarantees are uncertain especially in the light of recent regulatory changes and it is unclear who benefits from them; customers debt holders shareholders or managers?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>The Reality of Managing Exceptional Talent</title>
<description><![CDATA[Harnessing talent requires focus on the individual not the organisation. Bernhard Kerres tunes into the reality of managing exceptional talent.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>The right price, at the right moment, to the right customer</title>
<description><![CDATA[Every company has to put a price on what it sells but Tim Ham and Marco Bertini have found that most companies often fail at this important task in a manner that jeopardises long term value.  And there are surprisingly large rewards for those companies that invest in even the simplest of price optimisation techniques.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Turning on the Lights at GE Capital</title>
<description><![CDATA[Richard Laxer heads GE Capital in Europe. He explains the GE approach to building business to Des Dearlove.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Indus Towers: the India-way of business</title>
<description><![CDATA[Collaborative and with a unique business model Indus Towers provides a powerful insight into the India-way of business.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Profile: John Kay, Economist</title>
<description><![CDATA[John Kay is one of the UK’s leading economists. Most recently Kay chaired the UK government’s Review of Equity Markets and Long-Term Decision-Making.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>The Seven Deadly Sins of Management</title>
<description><![CDATA[What is it about bad bosses that we find so fascinating? Perhaps like every anti-hero we find the bad manager a ripe target for criticism or at least extensive discussion. Julian Birkinshaw however says that bad bosses can change for the better. It all starts with knowing what needs changing.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Stakeholders: Threat or Opportunity?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Firms that operate in the same industry with similar stakeholders and organisational pressures could be expected to respond to stakeholders in the same way. But they don’t. Donal Crilly set out to discover why.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>The Challenge for Professional Services</title>
<description><![CDATA[Growth globalisation and industrialisation are tempting strategies for professional service firms.  But warn Dominic Houlder and Peter Williamson they put at risk what made firms successful in the first place.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>The Leadership Formula</title>
<description><![CDATA[The world is a different place than it might have been thanks to Alexander the Great Horatio Nelson and Steve Jobs. Leaders.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>The life cycle of family ownership</title>
<description><![CDATA[When UK family businesses decide to increase their fortunes they send out an invitation to buy equity stock. But family businesses in Continental Europe seldom acquire new investors through equity financing.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Product failure is a moment of truth</title>
<description><![CDATA[The decision by Toyota to recall 3.4 million cars due to a fault with an airbag is once again firing up the social media world.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Securing the talent advantage in key growth</title>
<description><![CDATA[Attracting talent in emerging markets has always been a challenge for Western multinationals. Christoffer Ellehuus of Corporate Executive Board (CEB) says that the need to become the employer of choice is now imperative if these companies are to succeed in emerging markets.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
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