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Getting back to basics

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The business world is often rife with trendy management fads and there appears to be a renewed belief in 'mean management' techniques. A better approach would be to follow Canadian CEO Adam Zimmerman's simple advice to do a good job and forget about management trends.

Analysis, Management, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Executives, Corporate culture, Authorship, Fads, Zimmerman, Adam

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A dressing down

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Many Canadian businesses allow their employees to come to work in casual clothing on Fridays, on the theory that such attire boosts staff morale. The fact that businesses now countenance such clothing habits reflects a broad decline in standards.

Social aspects, Sportswear, Clothing and dress, Clothing, Work clothes, Sport clothes

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Without a trace

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Exxon International President Sidney Reso was apparently abducted from his home in Morristown, NJ, on April 29, 1992. Police still are calling it a missing persons case since no legitimate demands from kidnappers have appeared.

Officials and employees, Cases, Crimes against, Crime, Kidnapping, Morristown, New Jersey, Reso, Sidney, Exxon International Co.

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