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THE SWEET PERFUME wafting over northern Iraq does not come from the wildflowers that speckle its rumpled plains in spring. It is the smell of oil and it is everywhere, flaring at wellheads, sloshing from the tanker trucks that grind up potholed roads to backyard refineries in the Kurdish hills and fumi...
Managers who rely too much on their strengths may become hammers that see every problem as a nail. Over-forceful bosses can turn their subordinates into patsies; consensus-obsessed bosses can institutionalise dithering. It is not difficult to find examples of strengths-turned-weaknesses in politic...
Glinting greenly from the corners of the Beatles' album covers is an apple. With its shiny, acid-coloured skin, it is recognisable as a Granny Smith. Once popular enough to have a Pantone paint colour named after them, today they are declining. Britons are eating other varieties—if they are eating a...