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		<title>Do words mean anything?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of course they do. They have more power than any weapon.
Listen to what former Lib Dem leader David Steel&#8217;s father, who was a church minister in Kenya at the time of the Mau Mau risings in the mid-1950s, had to say in a live radio broadcast in January 1955 about the British use of concentration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geraldoliver.com/news/archives/17</link>
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		<title>Thinking about Pentagram founder Alan Fletcher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Talking about Pentagram, I&#8217;ve been re-reading Alan Fletcher&#8217;s last book, &#8220;Picturing and Poeting&#8221; (Phaidon 2006). Described by Emily King as &#8220;the father figure of British graphic design&#8221;, I had the pleasure of meeting him a number of times when I was a client of Pentagram (back in my brewery days). Ms King wrote a wonderful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geraldoliver.com/news/archives/15</link>
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		<title>Daniel Weil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of listening to Daniel Weil, Pentagram partner, talking about his work at an evening organised by the Design Business Association. 
During the Q&#038;A, Daniel expressed concern that young designers tend too much to move from college straight to setting up their own business, without having any iconic experienced designers to follow. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geraldoliver.com/news/archives/14</link>
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		<title>Swedish suggestions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Business books are all too often based around the author guru&#8217;s latest recycling of common-sense logic. But Jonas Ridderstråle and Kjell Nordstrøm, the writers of &#8216;Funky Business: Talent Makes Capitalism Dance&#8217; and &#8216;Karaoke Capitalism&#8217;, are worth anyone&#8217;s attention.
Example: &#8220;The time has come to stop re-engineering and start re-energizing our organizations. Competence is nothing without compassion. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geraldoliver.com/news/archives/13</link>
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		<title>A cultural melting pot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you handle the culture of an organisation that employs 4,600 people of 140 nationalities, who speak 70 languages and work in 220 countries? Oh and there&#8217;s no national base and so no &#8216;parent&#8217; culture  underpinning everything.

This is the challenge that an outfit called SITA has faced since it was founded in 1949. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geraldoliver.com/news/archives/11</link>
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		<title>Written by professionals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, I&#8217;ve handled a great deal of work with British Telecom, as have many writers and designers. We were governed for a while by a set of guidelines on how the BT brand should be communicated. They had this to say about words&#8230;
&#8220;Oddly enough, the world is not waiting with bated breath for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geraldoliver.com/news/archives/10</link>
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		<title>HP shows the way to break a great culture</title>
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Remember the HP way? It was the style of running a business perfected by David Packard and Bill Hewlett of HP fame. Back in 2004, Business Week&#8217;s Peter Burrows reminded his readers of a plaque to be found outside a two-family house at 367 Addison St. in Palo Alto, California. It identifies the dusty one-car [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geraldoliver.com/news/archives/8</link>
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		<title>No problem!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It all started in about 1990. The new breed of service agents, instead of responding to customers who are tendering thanks for a service provided with something along the lines of &#8220;It&#8217;s a pleasure&#8221; started saying &#8220;No problem&#8221;. This is the ultimate example of the change in society for the &#8220;me&#8221; generation. What &#8220;No problem&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geraldoliver.com/news/archives/7</link>
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		<title>A question of style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished updating and editing a style book for a client, a major company in air transport and IT. What makes this project particularly intriguing is that their 4,000 staff are based in more than 200 countries and, between them, they speak over 70 languages. So providing them with guidance over the use of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geraldoliver.com/news/archives/1</link>
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