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‘No such thing as bad publicity’

August 31, 2012

Rebecca Ellinor, managing editor, Supply Management“I could barely write my name without having to sit down afterwards – it’s nine letters long and thus really takes it out of me when writing with a normal pen designed for men.”

“I was recently given a box of these as a gift from my husband, but I have no idea what to do with them! They’re too thin to make a good rolling pin, I can’t ladle out my soups with them and the tiny point doesn’t even make a dent when I try to use one to chop veggies!” (more…)

Talent allotting

July 10, 2012

Businesses used to be staffed by people called… people. Personnel managers worried about the personnel. Then came ‘human resources’ managers, with their amazing dictionary of jargon and arid phrases. And finally human beings ascended to the ultimate level. They became ‘talent’.

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