Recession blues 2 - batten down the hatches.
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I recently attended the Growth Strategies Conference in London – they had a rather cute vote-catching system. Delegates had to press a button on the handsets and votes and results came up immediately.

The results of the votes were as follows:

The biggest factor restricting growth is:

31% skilled staff
23% economic climate
18% lack of capital
11% competition
9% resource prices
8% regulations

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Why haven’t we cracked this staff satisfaction thing??

Despite the creation of the new social science, Human Resource Management, and the hours of consultancy pumped into “making the workplace more effective”, we still don’t seem to have got it right.

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