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		<title>Want loadsa money? Join a charity!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after dropping a few coins in a collection box for a small-ish charity in the south-west the other day I was a little taken aback to find that it was advertising for a new chief executive at a salary of £80,000. Rather more than most of us receive, I guess.
But, it seems, such a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anyone prepared to nominate Andrew Lansley for an NHS Award?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will Health Secretary Andrew Lansley be remembered as a reformer or a wrecker?  I pose the question partly because hot on the heels of the passing of the Health and Social Care Bill comes a call for nominations for the NHS Leadership Recognition Awards.
When announced, the Bill was hailed by its supporters as the greatest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrapping bank hols would help the economy – but at what cost?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other week it was the Governor of the Bank of England telling us that the Jubilee Holiday was going to be bad for the economy. Now a &#8216;think thank&#8217; claims that scrapping bank holidays would boost GDP (output) by £19 billion a year.
An impressive figure, without question, but has the think tank, the Centre [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank holidays – good for workers but bad for the economy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most people, I’m looking forward to enjoying an additional bank holiday this year, courtesy of HM The Queen.  But the extra day is bad news for the economy, according to a Mail Online report of a speech by the Governor of the Bank of England.
It says that Sir Mervyn King told the House of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NHS staff cuts causing problems – but ‘reforms’ go on</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the government is pressing on with its so-called NHS ‘reforms’ &#8211; having just pushed through its Health and Social Care Bill despite considerable opposition &#8211; many Health Service employees are already very concerned about staffing levels and workloads.
Their concerns are raised in the annual NHS Staff Survey in which 135,000 people took part – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real progress in ‘women onto company boards’ drive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch out old boy, the women are coming! The glass ceiling looks to be disappearing fast, if the latest news about the number of women on company boards is anything to go by, with the first annual review of progress showing significant changes from a year ago.
A panel headed by Lord Davies has found that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New twist on retirement age saga as CIPD says more older people needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heading for retirement? Hold on, you may be needed to help address the coming shortfall in the workforce as fewer and fewer young people are available to take over your job.
In fact the issue of the Default Retirement Age has taken a whole new twist with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) advising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stronger focus on leadership needed to help economic growth</title>
		<link>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2012/02/29/stronger-focus-on-leadership-needed-to-help-economic-growth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More and more of our clients are looking to enhance their leadership capability as part of their strategy for growth.  Now a new report calls for the government to make leadership development a key part of its plans to improve the UK&#8217;s competitiveness and boost economic growth.
Enlightened organisations today recognise that managers are not necessarily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Summit? You must be joking Dave!</title>
		<link>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2012/02/21/health-summit-you-must-be-joking-dave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dale Carnegie’s seminal work ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’ is still in print after more than 70 years. What a pity then that David Cameron didn’t have a look at it before embarking on yesterday’s ridiculous ‘health summit’ in which he managed to further alienate his critics.
The government really has its back to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love in the workplace – a good idea or not?</title>
		<link>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2012/02/11/love-in-the-workplace-%e2%80%93-a-good-idea-or-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hats off to those nice people who make Love Hearts sweets.  Just ahead of St Valentine’s Day they’ve come up with some findings that address the potentially explosive issue of personal relationships in the workplace.
According to a story in the Business section of today’s ‘Telegraph’ the Swizzels Matlow factory in the north Derbyshire town of [...]]]></description>
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