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		<title>Devious manipulator or social worker?</title>
		<link>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/09/devious-manipulator-or-social-worker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevinball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In “Capitalism 4.0” Anatole Kaletsky takes a huge, global bite of history and disgorges the view that the most recent financial crisis is the beginning of a new sort of Political Economy. In his version of history capitalism 1.0 came after Wellington’s defeat of Napoleon in 1815, capitalism 2.0 after the 1930’s Depression and capitalism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When &#8216;thank you&#8217; is nearly enough</title>
		<link>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/09/when-thank-you-is-nearly-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevinball</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/?p=370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I once appraised a sales manager who asked me not to give him a pay rise. Driven and successful, he was the proud possessor of an ego of unfeasible proportions and his request was that we should give him a bigger car and a grander title instead of money. He argued that the perception of wealth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economical with the truth or fibbing?</title>
		<link>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/09/economical-with-the-truth-or-fibbing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/09/economical-with-the-truth-or-fibbing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevinball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist drew attention to some work from Stanford the other day &#8211; “How to tell when your boss is lying”. The researchers analysed the transcripts of 30,000 (yes, 30,000) conference calls from American CEOs and CFOs with corporate investors and looked for the verbal traits common to those who were subsequently discovered to be, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The bullshit about consultancy</title>
		<link>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/08/the-bullshit-about-consultancy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/08/the-bullshit-about-consultancy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevinball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the pithy and pertinent Rick posted a piece on Flip Chart Fairly Tales which has engendered a discussion over the role and value of management consultancy. I thought I’d join in.
Rick’s blue touch paper was lit by an irritatingly daft article in the Independent which argues that consultancy is all about using bright young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;In Office Hours&#8221; by Lucy Kellaway</title>
		<link>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/08/in-office-hours-by-lucy-kellaway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/08/in-office-hours-by-lucy-kellaway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevinball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like Lucy Kellaway. Well, I don&#8217;t know her but I like reading her article in the FT every week. She writes well, she&#8217;s often funny and she seems to find something relevant to say most Mondays. This is her second book and it deals with office romance.  Its well written, sometimes funny and has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The time the locust ate</title>
		<link>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/08/the-time-the-locust-ate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/08/the-time-the-locust-ate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevinball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at work this week. I was last week as well but the lack of cars in the car park and the silent telephone make it clear that I&#8217;m increasingly lonely in trying to keep this particular wheel of industry turning. The Guardian reported over the weekend that up to a third of British people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get real about getting old</title>
		<link>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/07/get-real-about-getting-old/</link>
		<comments>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/07/get-real-about-getting-old/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevinball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the government announced consultation on a proposal to scrap the default retirement age (brilliant covered by @mrmikeberry, by the way). All three major parties said they would do this in their election manifestos and the lobby pressure from Age UK and others has been inexorable so this can be of no surprise to anyone who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Management in GP Practice</title>
		<link>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/07/management-in-gp-practice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/07/management-in-gp-practice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevinball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Doctors that we&#8217;ve worked with have expressed a deep loathing of &#8216;management&#8217;. They are not unique in this. Legal and accountancy practices once expressed a similar distrust of the professional manager in our work with them. For these people, the technical ability to deliver good work was the key to success and the physical capability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graduate Work</title>
		<link>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/07/graduate-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/07/graduate-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevinball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Association of Graduate Recruiters have reported a tightening of the jobs market for recent graduates. A 7% drop in vacancies; a hold in starting salary at around £25,000; an increasing preference from employers for candidates with a 2:1 and an average of 69 applications for each role make pretty grim reading for the recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cost of workplace conflict</title>
		<link>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/07/the-cost-of-workplace-conflict/</link>
		<comments>http://www.west-consulting.com/people-matters/2010/07/the-cost-of-workplace-conflict/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevinball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mediation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the publication of Peter Mandelson&#8217;s memoirs  has highlighted the strife at the centre of the Labour government over recent years, new research published by Friedel Bolle, Jonathan Tan and Daniel Zizzo has strengthened the case for Mediation in employment disputes.
The three economists, from Frankfurt, Nottingham and East Anglia respectively, have published a paper &#8216;Vendettas&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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