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Editorial: It's hair shirts all round.
June 1, 2009... A year ago, the last place Richard Atkinson thought he would wind up was on the cover of MT. Now he's there for all the wrong reasons. The former business development manager for a West Country marketing consultancy lost his job in January when the business went under. He's broke, signed-on,...

In my Opinion: Chartered Management Institute.
June 1, 2009... Ian Reynolds, a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute, urges leaders to remember that change is needed in good times as well as bad. It's a paradox that the more successful your organisation becomes, the harder it is to change. IBM in the '80s was a classic example of this It...

The MT Diary.(Management Today)
June 1, 2009... On yer Velib, Boris; Manhattan perks up; Darling buds of May; finance boffins lose out. A weekend in Paris, like nostalgia, is not what it used to be. But is it worse than a weekend in London, with every other street dug up and gloomy bankers at the bar crying into their champagne about...

Don't you believe it ... the fD can manage cashflows.(finance department)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... Many businesses are feeling the squeeze on cash, and relying on their finance department to help. They're looking in the wrong place The first step in solving a cashflow squeeze is to get rid of the idea that it's the finance department's job. This is why: Finance can't collect cash. A...

Do it right: Negotiate with suppliers.(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... Do what you must. The big supermarkets may attract vitriol for squeezing dairy farmers by the udders, but in a sink-or-swim predicament, you have no choice but to cut costs. Just be open with suppliers about your reasons. Give them time. Write in advance to prepare them for a fall in...