Last week the new Nokia CEO Stephen Elop sent a memo to all of his companies employees. It was a tough message, in reality because the grave problems that Nokia needs to deal with are also tough. It is rarely easy to remove the veils that many executives use to filter reality and yet it […]

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It’s official, according to the FT, this recession has it’s own name: “The Great Recession”,  Not quite as illustrious as his grand father, “The Great Depression”, but not too bad all the same. So, if you are feeling a little frustrated by the slowness or the weakness of the economic recovery, don’t be concerned, you’re […]

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A week ago Kevin Rudd was packing his bags for Toronto where he was going to rub shoulders with the most powerful people on the planet. He was Australia’s Prime Minister, the country’s leader. In the space of twenty-four hours the labour party’s bosses brutally dispatched him to political oblivion, in terms of power, a […]

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