When you say, How do you foster an innovative culture, It's not actually for me about innovation schemes or about prizes or incentives, it's actually about people coming to work and being allowed to use their creativity and their imagination, and it could generate a sky couch or it could generate just a happy mum another day.

WSJ: Managing in Asia: A Focus on People Keeps Little Guy Flying High

Just one more day figuring out a problem at the keyboard or under the ventilating hood, making another set of sales calls, teaching another roomful of people about the latest software upgrades.

FORBES: Magazine Article

It is too early to say whether Mr Sarkozy is a failure at home: thanks to his doublespeak on so many issues, we will only know on his last day in office whether he was a reformer using populism to change France, or just another French ruler in hock to the country's vested corporatist interests, and paralysed by fear of public opinion.

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