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	<title>Management Blog</title>
	
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	<description>A discussion forum for business leaders and senior managers, led by Stefan Stern</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Business as usual?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/11/06/business-as-usual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Stern</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At an Editorial Intelligence panel discussion here at the FT in London on Wednesday evening, I was astonished to hear a former City editor, someone well-known for his robust and solidly pro-market views, condemn the levels of some City bonuses as &#8220;nauseating&#8221;. He also decried what he saw as the &#8220;grotesque inequality&#8221; of modern society.
When such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Actors who create drama of business</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/11/04/actors-who-create-drama-of-business/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/11/04/actors-who-create-drama-of-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Johnson</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Career/skills]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What motivates high achievers? Is it money, status or power? Perhaps it is none of these. Perhaps the strongest urge is simply the overwhelming desire to escape boredom.
Unquestionably, the executive suite embraces melodrama with more enthusiasm than any other activity. Making sales, hiring new staff, generating a profit are all very well – but what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big lessons we can learn from Little Chef</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/11/03/big-lessons-we-can-learn-from-little-chef/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/11/03/big-lessons-we-can-learn-from-little-chef/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Stern</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/management/?p=5106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hard work and relentless attention to detail: that’s management for you. Talk is cheap. Visions can inspire, for a moment or two. But without graft – and competence – things go wrong. Any business, no matter how successful, will struggle if it forgets this. There are no quick fixes for organisations that have big commercial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russell L. Ackoff - 1919 - 2009</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/11/02/russell-l-ackoff-1919-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/11/02/russell-l-ackoff-1919-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Stern</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/management/?p=5011</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sad news over the weekend: Russ Ackoff has died. He was 90 years old.
Ackoff was the father of systems thinking, which in the context of management means that looking at problems in isolation is probably going to be a mistake. Work flows (or is supposed to) through a business or organisation, pulled through by customer (or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When a longer working life is good for us all</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/11/02/when-a-longer-working-life-is-good-for-us-all/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/11/02/when-a-longer-working-life-is-good-for-us-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Kellaway</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Social change]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/management/?p=5001</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was 20, I thought I’d retire at 60. By the time I was 35, I expected to retire rather earlier, at about 50 or so. Back then, it was fashionable for professionals to take early retirement – either because they found they could, or because their employers had tired of them and pensioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The guitar guy and United Airlines, round two</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/10/30/the-guitar-guy-and-united-airlines-round-two/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/10/30/the-guitar-guy-and-united-airlines-round-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Mattu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Brand management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Consumers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Customers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dave Carroll, United Airlines and how to get customer service wrong - again]]></description>
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		<title>Business Book of the year: Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/10/29/business-book-of-the-year-lords-of-finance-by-liaquat-ahamed/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/10/29/business-book-of-the-year-lords-of-finance-by-liaquat-ahamed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Mattu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business book award]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hard times]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Business Book of the Year Award 2009 - Lord of Finance, by Liaquat Ahamed]]></description>
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		<title>The curiously popular Dyson fan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/10/28/the-curiously-popular-dyson-fan/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/10/28/the-curiously-popular-dyson-fan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Mattu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Brand management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Consumers]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Marketing/sales]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dyson's new bladeless fan - a design icon in the making?]]></description>
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		<title>Business school: an ethical dilemma</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/10/28/business-school-an-ethical-dilemma/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/10/28/business-school-an-ethical-dilemma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan Stern</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/management/?p=4816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do take a quick look at our regular Judgment Call feature from Wednesday&#8217;s paper. It&#8217;s a particularly good one, even if we say so ourselves.
We have sharp contributions from four distinguished commentators: Harvard Business School&#8217;s Rakesh Khurana, Rotman&#8217;s Roger Martin, Kai Peters from Ashridge and Jim O&#8217;Toole from the University of Denver.
We have asked them how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The leader who falls will emerge stronger</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/10/28/the-leader-who-falls-will-emerge-stronger/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/10/28/the-leader-who-falls-will-emerge-stronger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Johnson</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Career/skills]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Corporate culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/management/?p=4801</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[F Scott Fitzgerald said: “There are no second acts in American lives.” An awful lot of entrepreneurs, investors and executives must hope he was talking nonsense.
The past 18 months have seen many reputations ravaged, plenty of high-profile sackings and a lot of business failures. I am afraid that in this digital world, such blemishes are [...]]]></description>
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