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Global Recession Scramble

Published on April 14, 2010 By Nick Taylor

As the global economy advances from sucky to outright fragile, no one can deny that this global recession has got legs. In the US, a definite end date for the recession is something that the National Bureau of Economic Research is in no hurry to declare – and this as of yesterday. Turning to Europe, the best indications [...]

The Four Virtues

Published on May 12, 2009 By Nick Taylor

In business, as in life, certain qualities deemed ‘virtues’ are constant, timeless, ancient and yet so often painfully ignored. We should always remember that we ignore the lessons of history at our own peril. The four Cardinal Virtues have their roots in Plato’s philosophy and are sometimes synthesized in human form, as in the beautiful [...]