LONDON — It’s a silly time for news stories. But everyone seems to love a “bad business” story. So I feel sorry for Lovells’ man in China. He sent out a note to try to rally his senior staff and get them into the office on time.
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LONDON – No one seems too surprised this week that the Catalan have voted for independence. Except maybe the Catalan who voted for it. Independence is something we often dream about. We spend most of our adolescence fighting for it. And then almost all of our adulthood. We want to be free of the constraints imposed on us. We want to be [...] LONDON — Like being on holiday when your house is broken into, watching politics unfold in my home town of Montreal and across the province of Quebec is unhealthy. You imagine things that aren’t true. You worry about what might have happened, and hold out hope in vain for things that might not. Then the reality is both better and worse [...] CHELSEA — You’ll have to ask my friend Chris. I told him at lunch yesterday that I thought Bob Diamond had done himself in with his letter to employees on Monday. By last night that was being reported. I have seen a lot of letters to employees and Mr Diamond’s just didn’t hit the right notes. It felt like it [...] How it helps and what we can do Diversity is always an issue that causes much discussion, and this week there are interesting findings about the role of women on UK Boards. According to the law firm Eversheds, the best performing companies are likely to have a smaller Board size and a high proportion of female directors (the study included 241 [...] KINGS ROAD — Apple are facing “bad PR” with their Foxconn tie-up. That seems to be what columnists are saying. (One bank, UBS, said yesterday that the pay rises for employees, brought on by exposés of the loss of life and investigations into explosions at iPhone and iPad manufacturing sites, “[...] LONDON — It’s been hard not to think about Korea this week. But I have different things on my mind. Not the loss of a dictator. Not the worry that still has South Korean’s practicing evacuations like WWII Britain and Cold War America. I am thinking about Korea’s fertile business culture and the country’s uncanny ability to reinvent itself, rebuild and [...] LONDON — We’re crashing into Christmas. Like everyone else. Lurking in shop doorways on Dec 24th and thinking “I said I’d never do this again.” It’s been an odd and uncomfortable week amongst men in the UK though. The dominant pagan religion of football has seen people talking about “goodwill toward men”, but in reverse. What qualifies as “lacking goodwill” and what [...]
MY HOUSE — I am off for Christmas. Great place to be. Catching up on sleep. Meeting my kids again. Fighting a cold. And still word comes this weekend that a great character from my childhood has passed away. The Rev James Leo was the Dean of the American Cathedral in Paris when I was a teenager. His son [...] HYDE PARK CORNER — I had a run of texts from a politically obsessed British friend last week. “Have you heard the latest joke about Chris Christie?” I hadn’t. In fact I hadn’t even heard of Chris Christie. I was still catching up on the impossible rise and fall of Rick Perry (who I also hadn’t heard of a [...] |
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