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STAT OF THE MONTH. February 2013: How Many Facebook Likes Can You Buy For $3.8 Million? Not known yet. See here to follow the answer! STAT OF THE MONTH. January 2013: Rotavirus is a leading cause of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in young children worldwide, and accounts for around 40% of AGE cases in Europe. Source: Pierre Van Damme, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Antwerp STAT OF THE MONTH. December 2012: A Highlands truck driver is this month calling for all HGV drivers to observe a 40mph ‘go slow’ as part of his campaign to increase the speed limit. Source: Transport Professional's Magazine FACTS (December 2012) STAT OF THE MONTH. August 2012: GSK has been fined $3bn in the US for bribing doctors to increase sales of drugs. Source: @PyhtonJones STAT OF THE MONTH. July 2012: The illegal tobacco trade looses the Exchequer £2.2bn a year. That equates to a lot of cigarettes and too many smokers. STAT OF THE MONTH. June 2012: Every 60 seconds: * 700,000 Google searches are conducted Source: DaVinci Institute STAT OF THE MONTH. May 2012: Flights departing on Friday 13th May 2011 were 5% cheaper than on other Fridays in the same month. Well, at least it is not all bad news... (the next Friday 13th is July 2012) Source: Swoodoo.com STAT OF THE MONTH. April 2012: In the U.S. an average company saves over $7,000 for each employee suggestion that is enacted. Source: Anon STAT OF THE MONTH. March 2012: Presenteeism (people turning up to work even if they are ill) costs twice as much as sickness absence. Source: Ellipse STAT OF THE MONTH. February 2012: More than 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people. Source: Weird facts STAT OF THE MONTH. January 2012: 200 hours a year (five working weeks) are spent commuting to and from work. Source: the TUC |
QUOTE OF THE MONTH. February 2013: "Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." Source: Nido Qubein QUOTE OF THE MONTH. January 2013: “Fail to plan - plan to fail.” Source: Anon QUOTE OF THE MONTH. December 2012: “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” Source: Marilyn Monroe QUOTE OF THE MONTH. August 2012: “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” Source: Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People. QUOTE OF THE MONTH. July 2012: “Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right things.”
QUOTE OF THE MONTH. June 2012: "Failure is the foundation of success; success is the lurking place of failure." Source: Laozi QUOTE OF THE MONTH. May 2012: "Adam Smith’s invisible hand – the idea that free markets lead to efficiency as if guided by unseen forces – is invisible, at least in part, because it is not there." Source: Joseph Stiglitz, The Guardian QUOTE OF THE MONTH. April 2012: "The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please". Source: Confucius QUOTE OF THE MONTH. March 2012: "Your most unhappy customers are your best source of learning". Source: Bill Gates QUOTE OF THE MONTH. February 2012: "What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." Source: T.S. Eliot [In Policy Governance® the beginning point for making a difference is indeed defining the Ends, and defining Ends is the start of better governance.] QUOTE OF THE MONTH. January 2012: “Good corporate governance is about 'intellectual honesty' and not just sticking to rules and regulations, capital flowed towards companies that practiced this type of good governance.“ Source: Mervyn King, The King Report |
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