”All business relationships are based on power and profit. To pretend otherwise is delusional, and to manage any business in denial of so simple and far-reaching a truth is to create dishonest and unsustainable business environments. They are environments within which tactics masquerade as ethical concern,” writes Colin Bower.
A sex scandal involving an official from India threatened to overshadow the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday, with police and organisers on the backfoot over an assault in the Games village. A 16-year-old girl working as a cleaner was indecently assaulted at the village on Monday, police said.
Ever since the days of Henry Ford, Detroit has been the hub of the world’s motor industry. Motor City boasted the big three — Ford, General Motors and Chrysler — but it is now a shadow of its former self. Chrysler has been swallowed by Daimler, while between them Ford and General Motors have announced 60 000 job cuts.
Australia are without their world beaters Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett but South Africa will have their two inspirational team leaders in this week’s swimming at the Commonwealth Games, team coach Dirk Lange said on Tuesday. The Australian men look vulnerable for the first time at a Commonwealth Games in over 20 years and the South Africans believe their time has come.
At a diplomatic reception in Beijing a few years ago, the former president of Harvard, Larry Summers, dropped a spicy chicken wing into the turn-up of his trousers and continued to make small talk with finger food bobbing closer to his toes than is generally considered decent. A man who displays such a lack of social graces can still go far (for a woman it would be terminal).
”Chris McGreal has been unable to untangle the confusion and complexities of group relations in Israel. He is muddled in distinguishing between the situations of Israeli Arabs and West Bank Arabs and Jerusalem Arabs,” writes the former deputy editor of the Rand Daily Mail, Benjamin Pogrund.
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Zimbabwe will this coming winter implement a drastic power-rationing programme which will see whole cities and regions of the country switched off for periods ranging up to five hours, the state-owned Zimbabwe Electricity Distribution Company (ZEDC) said on Monday.
A meeting between Transnet unions and Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin yielded progress on Monday after another day of national strikes crippled the transport industry. ”Erwin has agreed that government will facilitate a resolution of certain pension issues related to Metrorail,” said his spokeswoman Gaynor Kast.
South Africa’s one-wicket victory over Australia in the fifth Standard Bank one-day international on Sunday was the main topic of conversation throughout the country on Monday. ”The best marketing team in the world couldn’t have sold the game of cricket as effectively,” said United Cricket Board chief executive Gerald Majola.