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		<title>Communicating science</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/communicating-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arthur Quiller-Couch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Research Unit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why don't scientists try using communications consultants? I have been trying to get my head round the Climategate scandal – but it’s useless. I don’t understand the words. ]]></description>
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		<title>Evolving skills</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/evolving-skills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sun has begun to set on my time as a public sector B2B editor. I am peering into the dark abyss of unemployment. There’s a lot of ‘restructuring’ going on where I work. Restructuring in this context means paying management consultants a lot of money to advise who to make redundant. But I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comparative conspiracies</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/comparative-conspiracies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil service and government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may be wondering why I haven’t written about the conspiracy recently – that is the one to make a mockery of editors everywhere, to turn language into meaningless noise, to pollute our every moment with confusing messages and meaningless drivel, to litter our lives with the pointless delusion that we exist for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainability</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/sustainability/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/sustainability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business speak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conspiracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conspirators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organisational development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plain English]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Businessdictionary.com sent me the definition for ‘sustainability’. I was pleased. This is one of the words that I rarely, if ever, understand and yet it comes up so often in editorial work. I suspect the conspirators who laugh at editorial staff promote the words ‘sustainable’ and ‘sustainability’ just to cause confusion. They come up in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plain English management</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/plain-english-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business speak]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[forcefield analysis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[project management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RACI Matrix]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been considering my prospects in editorial work. Humanity will always need people who can make sense of business speak and political nonsense and rewrite it in plain English. But the trouble is I have so much trouble understanding the words, I can barely lay claim to being one of those valuable people any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Targeting my market</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/targeting-my-market/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/targeting-my-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial claptrap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogosphere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plain English]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/?p=230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been using Google Analytics to measure visits to my blog. Every week I discover that new users are checking the site, but are they coming back? Then I found out about this thing called Blogpulse.com which tells you ‘what’s hot and what’s not’ in the blogosphere. I was surprised to see that editorial issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guerilla war of words</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/guerilla-war-of-words/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/guerilla-war-of-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An editor, who doesn't understand the words, learns about management.]]></description>
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		<title>The trough of recession</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/the-trough-of-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/the-trough-of-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial claptrap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metaphors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downturn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Management consultants are using bad writing to call on the government to give big business more tax breaks.]]></description>
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		<title>How to keep your job in a recession</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/how-to-keep-your-job-in-a-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/how-to-keep-your-job-in-a-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How long do you think the recession will last? Six more months? Fifteen years? Only ten? Or is it impossible to tell because we’ve “never seen anything like it before”? Who knows, but one thing I’m sure of is that there won’t be any work for editorial staff by the end of it. Everyone will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>transversal corporate functions for downturn virgins</title>
		<link>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/transversal-corporate-functions-for-downturn-virgins/</link>
		<comments>http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/management-consultants/transversal-corporate-functions-for-downturn-virgins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downturn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thought leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woollies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>

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I notice since I raised the alarm last week – about the world being under threat and everything – Gordon Brown claims to have saved it. But he hasn’t saved the Woolworths superstore.

I wonder what went wrong there. Could it have been they weren&#8217;t listening to the management consultants?

If only they had turned to the [...]]]></description>
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