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• New UK finance lobby gets its first leader - Financial News (subscription)

  24-04-2017 13:20
  
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  New UK finance lobby gets its first leader
  Financial News (subscription)
  UK Finance, the new trade lobby being established for banks and consumer lenders, has recruited a former Barclays and Schroders executive who rose to become the chief financial officer of Santander UK, as its inaugural CEO. Stephen Jones, who is ...en meer »
  
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• Brainlabs is fastest growing UK company in Financial Times ranking - CampaignLive

  24-04-2017 09:27
  
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  Brainlabs is fastest growing UK company in Financial Times ranking
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  Performance marketing agency Brainlabs is the fourth fastest-growing company in Europe, according to the Financial Times list of the continent's biggest boomers. Brainlabs chief executive Daniel Gilbert. The list ranks companies by their revenue growth ...
  
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• The new status symbol: it’s not what you spend – it’s how hard you work

  24-04-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The rich used to show how much they could spend on things they didn’t need. Today, a public display of productivity is the new symbol of class power
  Almost 120 years ago, during the first Gilded Age, sociologist Thorstein Veblen coined the term “conspicuous consumption”. He used it to refer to rich people flaunting their wealth through wasteful spending. Why buy a thousand-dollar suit when a hundred-dollar one serves the same function? The answer, Veblen said, was power. The ri
  
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• I want to put coaching at the heart of my work – how can I do that?

  24-04-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  I’m wondering if I should set up as an independent coach or whether it would be better to join a company
  Twice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy’s own insights.I’m in my mid-50s and work for a company that recently terminated a successful internal coaching programme due to “lack
  
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• Virgin Trains refused to refund £293 after I forgot my railcard

  24-04-2017 07:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Train operator says I must send in the new tickets I had to buy on the train, but the barrier retained them when we returned homeIn January my wife and I and three daughters travelled to Euston from Chester for a weekend in London. We bought tickets in December by phone from the Llandrindod Wells ticket office, which were posted to us. On the day of travel we realised we had left our family railcard at home and had to pay £293.65 for new tickets to the helpful train manager. It was explain
  
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