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Fortunately still alive and well here.

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I find that a universal norm - here (USA) if we want to do anything in our company we automatically have an IT or accounting person say we can't due to "SOX" (sarbanes-oxley) - often it's not true, but it adds a roadblock.

I am a big proponent of workplace safety (having been to court for a workplace fatality), but our safety staff also place an automatic "computer says no" before anything.

I'm not sure the UK is any better or worse.

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I wouldnt be too concerned, it isnt something I have noticed since being back and to be fair looking at the state of the US it should be a relief to get back here.

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Ditto to that!

I also see many managers who are not fit to be managers. They just don't have the skills. Poor, poor management styles.

I also see upper management in many companies as not being sophisticated enough to take the company to the next level. They either don't have enough experience/education themselves (in spite of holding the title) and/or they are unwilling to think outside the box (or don't know what it means). In short, many are complete and utter idiots. I don't mean unintelligent; I just mean "idiots".

I also see people being hired for the wrong reasons and people with real skill not being hired. Often they want followers rather than independent thinkers who can help them take the company to the next level.

I also see more and more that companies are unable to make decisions quickly. Too many politics at the top. When they don't make decisions in a reasonable amount of time, they often lose opportunities.

As far as I am concerned, most upper management need to take courses in creative thinking and mind-stretching these days. They have an image of their companies contained in a little box in their heads and are simply unable to think outside it.

And when it comes to BRANDING their company, they are TOTALLY USELESS!

Corporate America is in a sad, sad state these days.

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Some great pics of a great British tradition.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pict...ight-2013.html

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:goodpost:

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Brilliant stuff thanks for sharing!

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Public libraries.

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Contrary to what many people erroneously believe the word Great in reference to Britain has nothing whatsoever to do with power and influence and although in global terms the island of Britain is indeed quite small in terms of geographical physical size, in this particular context it is the larger of two separate units linked by the same name...in the French language.

Over on the other side of the English Channel, on the coast of neighbouring France facing towards the south coast of England, and jutting out to the north from the mainland is the French region of Bretagne (or Brittany as we Britons choose to call it, and where the locals are called by us Britons, Bretons) - a region much smaller in size than the island of Britain...or as the French chose to call it - Grande Bretagne.

Brittany resembles Cornwall in many ways, and the Breton language, still spoken or at least understood by a small number of Bretons, very much resembles Cornish (spoken or understood by a much smaller number of people) and in many ways Cornish resembles Welsh, which is actually spoken or at least understood by a larger number of people - in Wales, of course.

Time magazine used to refer this country (the UK) as Great Britain, but it has since dispensed with the word Great for reasons best known to themselves, and being an American publication they may well have thought that Great Britain no longer merited the prefix Great, which if that really was the case then it clearly displayed a level of ignorance...on their part.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2500051/

This is what makes Britain great!

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The Playing Fields of Etron, graced by so many members of the current Cabinet.,

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I get the impression most of them wouldn't know one end of a rugby ball from t'other.

Politicians usually look like right fools when they trying catching or kicking a ball in one of those media set-ups. Ming Campbell is the only athlete I know of (wasn't he a runner?)*.

Now Obama has a mean lay-up shot ... I'd love to see a British PM who could bend it like Beckham.

* Boris on a bike doesn't count. He said on TV recently that he ran the 100 metres in 10.8 seconds. What a liar.

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Charity....Brits are incredibly charitable.

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Apparently Australia is the most charitable country with the UK ranking 8th.

Source: Charitable aid foundation.