What price now for monetary union?
Half of young people in Spain and Greece are out of work. Many of those in employment have taken jobs well below the level and pay grade they could normally expect to achieve with the qualifications...
View ArticleArmed robbery 'just another day at the office' for liquor-store employees
A Pennsylvania court has decided that armed robberies are such a normal part of working in a liquor store that shopkeepers cannot claim for the mental harm of being involved in a hold-up.
View ArticleA deep-fried Mars a day may help you work, rest and play
Guess what; the deep-fried Mars bar is no urban myth. It is available over the counter at more than a fifth of chip shops in Scotland.
View ArticleTelephone tapping can be as easy as 1234
Television presenter Jeremy Paxman got more than he bargained for when he went to lunch with the then-editor of the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, and some of the newspaper's executives.
View ArticleStay hungry, stay foolish; the secrets of successful leadership
Good leadership may be hard to define, but it is easy to recognize. Think no further than the late Steve Jobs, chief executive at Apple, or Sir Terry Leahy, former Tesco chief executive.
View ArticleSuccess goes to firms that dare to be different
Ask 20 business people to list a dozen companies that stand out from the crowd, and it is likely that they would broadly agree on around half of them.
View ArticleBusinesses can learn from the military about training success
When a company needs to teach the principles of lean manufacturing fast, what better way can there be than through agile learning design?
View ArticleWhat IC of the BRIC can learn from each other
India and China are often lumped together as part of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries whose rapidly developing economies will have an increasingly profound impact on world affairs....
View ArticleNew HR strategy helps GM change its poor culture
American car manufacturers, once the big beasts of world industry, have had a rough ride in recent years. The time came to choose between total closure or drastic change. They made the right choice but...
View ArticleSexy adverts - and not all in the best possible taste
Sex sells. If it didn't marketers wouldn't relentlessly be offering sexy images - sometimes innovative and downright inspired, sometimes crude and tacky - to sell their wares. Sometimes the...
View ArticleMobile phones make calls - and change our lives
Today's young people can hardly believe there was once a time when most homes in the neighbourhood didn't have a telephone. Because of the scarcity of cabling' even those who did have a phone might...
View ArticleFalse economy of cutting safety training
Companies of all shapes and sizes are looking for ways to save money. The danger is that the old saying "Penny wise pound foolish" might come back to bite them. Take safety training, for instance....
View ArticleSpeaking effectively is an essential tool - but have you tried listening?
The art of public speaking isn't a skill needed only by those people who have to stand at a rostrum and address a packed meeting. It's essential for anyone who has to get across an effective message to...
View ArticleTraining is the key to keeping the wheels turning
Automobile mechanics are supposed to repair cars and, to underline the point, a television advertising campaign in the US shows them chasing after vehicles to stop them and find something to fix....
View ArticleIt's too soon to end the fight against poverty
In a radio broadcast in October 1939, Winston Churchill described Russia as 'a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma'. He might as well have been talking of India in 2013.
View ArticleWhen the pressure to be productive drives out creativity
It's far from plain sailing at technology giant Yahoo! The firm's profits and revenue have fallen. Competitors such as Google and Facebook are beating it in its core businesses of internet searching...
View ArticleWhen the biggest and best brands start to wobble
Some of the biggest brands in the world have the occasional wobble, but the best ones are usually quick to recognize their mistakes and put them right.
View ArticleThe pros and cons of social networking at work
What do you think of social networking? Is it a valuable tool through which your employees can tell their friends and acquaintances about the benefits of your product or service and of working for your...
View ArticleRestaurant chain is a winner for a dinner
In one of the final Sunday Times restaurant reviews he wrote before he died, ex-film director and bon vivant Michael Winner wrote: 'People often ask, "What's the worst meal you've ever had?" It used to...
View ArticleThe power of good story-telling simply isn't a myth
Everyone loves a good story. One of the oldest and most human art forms, story-telling can inspire us or break our hearts, fire our imagination or prey on our greatest fears, make us laugh or make us...
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