While on the energy watch, here's one end-of-week observation about one of Scotland's better-performing corporates, Aggreko.

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The recruiting observation I made about how passion wins in the end is based on comparing two candidates that both meet the skill requirements BEFORE passion plays into the equation.

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In the end, Big Ideas trump Big Data, and humanly relevant ideas depend on more than the manifold digits of historic observation.

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