"We are all able to speculate on the reasons for this failure and we are sure that many column inches will be written about the funding gap, inadequate continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities, leadership issues, performance management, best practice and disruptive behaviour, " he said.

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Hardly best practice leadership or management.

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The first official recognition of best practice in World Heritage site management will be given to the Historic Town of Vigan (Philippines) on this occasion.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

And a new Centre for Management and Policy Studies is being set up to propagate best practice.

ECONOMIST: Government

Corporate Japan is buying exposure to foreign technology and management techniques in the hope that these will help change its own to international best practice.

ECONOMIST: Japanese companies

Perhaps the best way to summarize pay secrecy is to say that it has become an old-fashioned, obsolete management practice that has a much larger downside than upside.

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