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  • Land of Ideas

    This year 61,000 Germans patented inventions, a new record In terms of ideas, Germany is EU leader with the highest number of inventions registered with the European Patents Office, writes Derek Scally in Berlin p

  • The annual management twaddle awards

    There were two heady moments during 2007 when it seemed that the bull market in management nonsense, which has been on the rampage for as long as I can remember, might be flagging. In the middle of May a reader forwarded me the following internal e-mail. "Who Moved My Cheese?™ Change Management Workshop has been cancelled due to insufficient numbers." p

  • The devil is in the detail

    BOOK REVIEW The Granularity of Growth: How to Identify the Sources of Growth and Drive Enduring Company Performance by Patrick Viguerie, Sven Smit, Mehrdad Baghai; Wiley Publications:  Authors argue leaders of large institutions should avoid taking an averaged view of their businesses and should manage them with greater focus at a more detailed level, while continuing to take advantage of their scale, writes Stefan Stern p
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