Back to Management blog- Oprah Winfrey is taking her entire staff and their families on a luxury holiday - for the second year running. Stuart Jeffries offers some reasonably plausible reasons why it might not be a great idea
- Abercrombie & Fitch is being sued by an employee who says she was discrimated against because she has a prosthetic arm that did not fit Abercrombie & Fitch’s “look” and led to her being relegated to the back room.
- Apple is so protective of its operations, that it senior managers have apparently released false information in internal meetings in order to identify the source of stories that had made it into the public domain
- Xerox’s CEO-elect, Ursula Burns is the first African-American woman to head a big US company. The company’s progressive policies on diversity are part of the reason but why have so few other ethnic minorities made it the top of corporate America?
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