LONDRES — Les recherches indiquent que près de 100 % des employés croient bien faire leur travail. Toutefois, seulement 50 % d’entre eux indiquent connaître les objectifs d’affaires de l’entreprise. En d’autres termes, chaque jour, un employé sur deux fait quelque chose de très bien mais ce n’est pas nécessairement en ligne avec les objectifs [...]
LONDON — I am reading some excerpts from the Treasury Select Committee. (It’s a slow day.). This is the UK Parliament’s most powerful economic over-sight committee. One assumes these guys have big brains and powerful calculators.
“There’s not one person here in this room that could read HSBC’s accounts and understand them,” said Jon Moulton of Alchemy [...]
PARSON’S GREEN — My granny used to talk about her friends dismissively as “[name] enjoys poor health.” So when I grew up I thought that was just a normal expression.
But are we not pre-programmed at some level to relish our own potential misery? I know John Milton had a view.
This morning, for the first time, I [...]
My view is that they [the banks] are partly to blame and there are people who feel remorse about this.
– Sir Win Bischoff, chairman of Citigroup
[Note to Sir Win: Good use of the third person, impersonal. "We don't know who these people are, but, by Jove, I swear they are out there!"]
For this season, all [...]
BBC FOUR — I have confused you with that, haven’t I? “Second world.” Well, how else can you bring together the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries and the Middle East?
We in the Occidental world have a typically imperial view of these parts of the world. They’re not part of the third world, but [...]
LONDON — There’s no sense starting the year off modestly. No one thinks that 2009 will be a modest year anyway.
A website that I hadn’t previously heard of, called Edge, has asked the simple question “What will change everything?” And over 100 luminaries have answered. I haven’t read them all (no sense lying.) But there [...]