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THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS

Rethink your Work

How to have happier and more productive staff

The Magic Number

How much should we pay CEOs?

Survival Strategies

How to survive and thrive during a recession

Tough Job

How do you motivate staff during a downturn?

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Charles Helliwell joins Wayne on this week's Working Week for a lively discussion about initiative overload and project paralysis.

With research published earlier this month confirming that most managers are deeply sceptical about the constant stream of projects, ideas and initiatives coming down from on high – believing most of them to be a complete waste of time – Charles and Wayne explore the whole phenomenon of "initiative fatigue".

Why is it that organisations so rarely seem able to empower their people to finish what they started? And if you do feel you're suffering from "death by initiative", what can you do about it?

The intro music to the Working Week is "The Warrior" by The EMP Project, used with permission of Blue Canoe Records.

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"The Working Week" is a weekly digest of news, blogs, and opinion from the pages of www.management-issues.com. Each week, host Wayne Turmel leads a spirited discussion on matters important to business, management development and human resources and the things that have caught his - and his guests' - eyes.
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