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Political unrest causing serious damage to Thai economy
\"Because of the publicity I think, so far, we've lost about 50 per cent of our business, and this is supposed to be our high season,\" said Chanin Donavanik, the Bangkok CEO of the Hotel chain Dusit International. \"If they're looking more at the ASEAN region itself they may be looking at other locations that seem a bit more stable,\" she added. \"A business struggle between the Thaksin Shinawatra owned group of companies and those that are aligned to them in business terms who have an interest in using the power of the state for their own business benefit, against the people who are their competitors in business and who stand to lose greatly by the willingness of the Shinawatra clan to use the power of the government to favour their own business interests,\" he said.
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Technology: Business sense: Entrepreneurs: born or bred?: Starting your own company is undoubtedly a risky business. So why do so many of us do it? Is it in the blood or just a handy alternative to working for 'the man'? Guy Clapperton reports
There's a lovely old anecdote from an American election from a previous century. The man on the hustings is a Republican and he's being heckled by a Democrat. He asks the Democrat why he votes that way. \"My grandfather was a Democrat, my father was a Democrat and now I'm a Democrat,\" came the answer. \"And what would you be if your father had been a Republican?\" asked hustings man. \"A jackass!\" came the reply. Jagvinder Kang heads up law firm Technology Law Alliance and also comes from a strong entrepreneurial background. His father came to the UK from India in the 1960s - a time when London was the only place in the UK where you could get Asian food - and set up a food shop followed by a national delivery service and, eventually, a wholesaler. So is family a red herring? Professor Peter Warr of the Institute of Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield stresses that you can't look at family backgrounds in isolation - there are a lot of variables in someone's decision to work for themselves or otherwise and employ a team of people or not. Family background is bound to be one of those factors. \"A relevant family background seems likely to increase a person's awareness of successful outcomes and also perhaps to increase the perceived attractiveness of those,\" he says. \"On the other hand, family experience of failure in this area would reduce the perceived probability of success (and hence reduce motivation).\"
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Why poor rural masses still support rich pledge-breaker
[Thaksin Shinawatra] was gambling that his Thai Rak Thai (Thais Like Thais) party would retain enough support to re-elect his Government, restoring its legitimacy. He was depending on the rural areas where 70 per cent of Thais still live, as his urban support has dived, especially in Bangkok. Rural voters admire Thaksin's undoubted energy and self- confidence. Rightly or not, they see him as a benefactor, and herein lies his greatest political achievement. Drawing on his business background, Thaksin used marketing techniques to sell his political party to the rural electorate. The methods included not only overt vote-buying, for which Thai elections are notorious, but also professional market research used to adjust the leader's message to suit particular sections of the electorate, especially in rural areas. Thai Rak Thai reportedly began its electioneering some days before the poll was announced. Thaksin's domination of the mass media is a further electoral asset. This domination includes radio and television, where the only non-government-owned television station is owned by Shin Corp, inhibiting the opposition's capacity to reach rural voters with their anti-Thaksin message.
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Obituary: Peter Warr: Manager of the Lotus Formula One team during its golden years
[Peter Warr] retired from racing in 1964, and had intended to follow Lotus with its move to Hethel, Norfolk, in 1966. But he changed his mind and decided to quit, in part because the job he really wanted - Lotus F1 manager - had gone to his colleague Andrew Ferguson. In 1969, however, Ferguson tipped Warr off that he was leaving the company. [Colin Chapman] judged Warr to be the right man for the post, so he was signed up just before the 1969 US grand prix at Watkins Glen, New York, the race where Hill crashed heavily and broke his legs in one of the works Lotus 49s while the other sped to a maiden Formula One victory for the German driver Jochen Rindt. Warr managed the team through the golden years of the Lotus 72 and was in charge at the time of Rindt's death at Monza in 1970. He then presided over the team's rebirth in 1972, when Emerson Fittipaldi became the youngest world champion to date. This domination continued into 1973, when Ronnie Peterson joined Fittipaldi in the Lotus squad, but over the next two years the team's fortunes began to wane. Then, in the spring of 1975, Warr broke both legs in a road accident. After [Nigel Mansell] crashed while leading the 1984 Monaco grand prix in his Lotus-Renault, an exasperated Warr commented that the British driver would never win a grand prix \"as long as he has a hole in his backside\". This turned out to be wide of the mark, as Mansell went on to win 31 grands prix with [Williams] and Ferrari. Warr later learned to laugh at his prediction.
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Peter Warr
[Peter Warr] was the perfect adjutant to [Colin Chapman]. He was a meticulous administrator and forever found himself cleaning up after the Old Man back at the office. He was also a talented race engineer and an accomplished strategist at the track. Back in the '70s the Lotus race team comprised the two drivers, two mechanics per car and a truckie, as well as Chapman and Warr. Rebuilding damaged cars and keeping up with some of the boss's barmy but effective ideas inevitably involved working round the clock. When [Walter Wolf] was merged with [Emerson Fittipaldi]'s flagging eponymous team at the end of 1979, Warr continued as team manager. In the middle of 1981, however, as Fittipaldi struggled, Chapman prevailed upon him to return to Lotus. \"PEW\" became team principal after Chapman died in December 1982; he enjoyed a difficult relationship with an emergent [Nigel Mansell], who was popular with the team sponsor [John Player], but certainly not Warr. When Mansell slid on a white line in the wet in Monaco in 1984, when he was leading by a country mile and refused team exhortations to slow down, Warr trenchantly declared: \"Nigel Mansell will never win a Grand Prix as long as he has a hole in his arse!\" Formula 1's principal powerbroker Bernie Ecclestone paid tribute, saying: \"Not only have I lost a good friend who was the team manager for Lotus when Colin Chapman ran the company, but Peter Warr will be missed by the thousands of people that knew him. When Peter was in Formula One he helped me to build it to what it is today.\"
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Ensaio - Alina Tugend: Paixão pelo trabalho? Bem, em alguns momentos
E, embora [Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi] não acredite que as pessoas possam estar sempre em estado de fluxo, ele enumera vários fatores necessários para sentir-se bem sobre seu emprego ou sua vida. Dois dos principais são a sensação de controle pessoal de uma situação ou atividade e um equilíbrio entre sua capacidade e seu potencial, para que a empreitada não seja demasiado fácil nem difícil. Ele reconhece que não é fácil atingir essas metas, especialmente em meio à recessão. Porém, ainda pode fazer uma diferença para sua satisfação no trabalho, ele diz, examinar quais são suas forças e necessidades e tentar ao máximo equiparar seu trabalho a esses atributos. Então, talvez buscar uma paixão não seja tão ruim. Mas também vale lembrar que não há uma única maneira de encontrá-la, e a paixão de outra pessoa pode ser um tédio para você.
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Borg May Quit, Rome Paper Says
Bob Kain, the director of I.M.G.'s tennis division, said last night that [Bjorn Borg], who is in Thailand, had not said anything to him.
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City's link with Barcelona could benefit the healthcare sector
The Hull-born diplomat, who splits his time between the Spanish financial centre and Madrid, said: \"Health might be the next phase. Barcelona is probably the most innovative biotechnology region in Spain. People don't realise how much in life sciences is here.\" \"[Leeds] in Barcelona did not happen by accident but because Leeds has made it happen. We bid for this programme because it is good to match the cohesion and enthusiasm to what we see in Barcelona. Sections of the Leeds delegation, which comprises 115 people from bodies including Financial Leeds, the city council, Screen Yorkshire, Creative Leeds and Leeds Hotel Association, as well as the property industry, have had sessions on issues such as sustainable development and the media in Barcelona.
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