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Sunday 26 October 2014 11:00 pm|Updated:Friday 07 June 2019 2:23 pmCommunicate, delegate and stay relevant: The Great Warrsquo leadership lessonsBy: Gavin WheelerShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailAdd as a preferredsource on GoogleMilitary history is fertile ground for lessons in leadership. Scores of chief executives surveyed by Forbes cited Sun Tzursquo The Art of War as their favourite business book with Oraclersquo chairman Larry Ellison apparently applying the tomersquo lessons in his companyrsquo software standoff with SAP , while City folk taking Cass Business Schoolrsquo executive Leadership course are shipped off to Sandhurst for weeks at a time. In the centenary year of World War One WWI , here are some lessons for business leaders from generals in the Great War. STAY RELEVANTFor organisations wary of investing in digital, the key message from history is: ignore new technologies at your peril. WWI generals are often characterised as being out of date. But rarely in history have commanders had to adapt to a more radically different technological environment. At the time, military leaders had a serious lack of skills and knowledge when
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Wednesday 07 September 2011 8:29 pm|Updated:Friday 31 May 2019 12:16 amGuy Hands starts a fresh court salvo to regain EMIBy: KCS-contentShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailAdd as a preferredsource on GoogleTERRA Firma chief Guy Hands has launched a second legal attempt to claw music group EMI back from the hands of its lender Citigroup, it emerged yesterday.Hands is understood to have filed a High Court suit against EMIrsquo adviser PwC to make it produce the evidence it used to propose the pre-pack administration that handed EMI back to Citi.A preliminary hearing was held yesterday as PwC refused to hand the report over to Handsrsquo; private equity house Terra Firma, as it contains commercially sensitive information.PwC was charged with solving the situation at EMI for all stakeholders, it was a standard procedure, one source familiar with the situation told City A.M. Since then, Terra Firma has been trying to get hold of the information, particularly the valuation information for EMI.The move is Handsrsquo; latest salvo in an acrimonious battle with Citi over EMI,
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