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Profile of EBRD president Horst Köhler, European Businessman What Köhler can criticise is not only Russia's flaccid legal system and its oligarchs' contempt for the law, but the ethics of its actions in this transition period. "I think the moral question, that 'fortune obliges', should be also in the mind of the Russian people, particularly the oligarchs. I think they should reflect on their position." This is Köhler at his most damning, verging on despair at the spiral of self-defeating corruption which is wrecking the Russian economy. Yet in the next breath he is praising the 'majority' of reasonable, honest Russians who hold out great hope for the future. Click here for full article

Partnering in the Construction Industry, The Financial Times

Quantity surveyors tend to dismiss partnering as a passing fad. "I don't think supply chain management has any real life over the long term," says Martin Bishop, group chairman of QS firm Franklin and Bishop. This brings as astonished response from Bernard Rimmer, general manager of construction at Slough Estates. "That's absolutely diabolical," he says.
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Private Banking in Asia, Wall Street Journal

"The Wealth House is perhaps the best among the 12 houses," according to astro-fengshui.com. "Hong Kong is financially sound and remains the goose continuing to lay golden eggs." For those whose property interests plunged by an average 55 per cent in the wake of the 1997 Asian crisis, or for investors whose shareholdings fell through the floor, this might seem like wishful thinking.
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Media Training in MIS

"I would say we are entering a time of great opportunity for the IT sector in relation to the wider world... you need to use the language of the audience, stimulate their interest and imagination, and appeal to the emotions." This may sound like Williams is trying to turn IT directors into Michael Jackson or Mick Jagger, but then, isn't IT 'the new rock and roll'? 
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Profile of Neelie Kroes, European Business magazine

"At a time when Margaret Thatcher - the original Iron Lady - is in declining health, a new European version is emerging, swinging her handbag at the continent’s political and business elite and causing a flurry of disquiet among this largely male college."
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