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	<title>Roger Collis &#187; Management Man</title>
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	<description>Roger has earned world-wide recognition as a business travel guru through his weekly column, &#039;The Frequent Traveler,&#039; in the International Herald Tribune; and as a contributing columnist for the New York Times. He has been described as the dean of business-travel journalists in Europe, who ‘created the template for business-travel columns in newspapers worldwide.’ An actor and broadcaster, Roger provides the many voices offered by Voicesetcetera.com.</description>
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		<title>About this book</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/06/12/about-this-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a collection of more than 100 mostly satirical columns reflecting the evolution of management life and style and organisation in international companies: from the telex and typewriter age of the 1960’s and 1970’s to cyberspace and the IT revolution – and the author’s view that satire should be almost indistinguishable from reality. Satirists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author’s note</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The earliest of these pieces first appeared in Werbung/Publicite (bilingual monthly organ of the Swiss Advertising Association, in a German translation – subsequently as a regular page in English under the inspiring auspices of the editor Walter Greminger in Zurich, of affectionate memory); and The Guardian.  Many were published in my end-page column in Chief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Management Man: contents</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/02/10/management-man-contents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreword: The way it was…
1.   The anxiety game
2.   The consultant explosion
3.   Selling the sizzle
4.   Vocation vacations
5.   Mammon and the muse
6.   Decisions, decisions
7.   Meetingmanship
8.   The medium is the merchandise
9.   In parenthesis
10. Making your presents felt
11. Meanwhile, back at the conference
12. Fear and loathing at Doberman &#38; Pinscher
13. Harry Toombs’ apocalypse
14. Management by rumour
15. Say ‘Shalom’ to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jaime Sevilla’s secret empire</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/01/23/jaime-sevilla%e2%80%99s-secret-empire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Archive Stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hymie? Hymie who?’
‘Jaime Sevilla!’
The voice on the line is deep and muscular. ‘What sign are you? I’m Sagittarius. Very Sagittarius!’ Big chuckle.
I curse the switchboard for putting this lunatic through.
‘As a matter of fact I’m Aquarius.’
A pause. ‘That’s okay. Aquarians are good with Sagittarians. Look, I read your Gauquelin story in last month’s issue of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you sure you know who I am and why I’m here?</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2010/02/06/are-you-sure-you-know-who-i-am-and-why-i%e2%80%99m-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Know thyself – that is the advice inscribed on the temple of Apollo at Delphi. In travel terms, that means deciding what kind of traveler you are for a particular trip. We travel in different modes and in different frames of mind, with different needs depending on why we are going and where we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have expenses, will travel</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2009/10/27/have-expenses-will-travel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hawes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may not have heard the story of the salesman who is summoned by his boss to explain an egregious item in his expense account. ‘Now see here, Joe. I know you’ve had a tough month chasing the Fingelstein order up in Niagara Falls. But $2,000 for an overcoat! You know there’s no way I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selling the sizzle</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2009/09/23/selling-the-sizzle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hawes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some years ago, I was having a drink with the chairman – I’ll call him Gerald – of a famous London advertising agency.  Gerald had picked up a chunk of new business and brought his wife along to celebrate.
‘Gerald, you’re the best salesman I ever met.’ I meant it as a compliment (after all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The consultant explosion</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2009/09/23/the-consultant-explosion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hawes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed that nearly everyone you meet nowadays is a consultant, or at least pretends to be? Top theologians at the Harvard Business School (that august seminary for the corporate priesthood) are predicting that in a few years time the entire business world will consist of consultants. With characteristic prescience they are preparing graduates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Anxiety Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hawes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As every successful executive knows, the real purpose of communications within a company is not to opine or inform but to generate and transfer anxiety. For of all the games that managers play, the most subtle and rewarding is the ‘anxiety game.’
Ever since big corporations lost their entrepreneurial zeal and became preoccupied with running the [...]]]></description>
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