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Owen Buckwell

Seven counterintuitive truths for managers

By Simon Caulkin
December 24, 2010 at 11:09am

How do you get customers to send bouquets to staff for great service (literally) yet cut costs at the same time? By discarding (almost) everything you think you know about management and doing the opposite.

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