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Transport for London’s Signal Failure – £886m more than planned*

Ron Rosenhead

As late as June 2014, TfL’s senior management continued to claim that the project could still be delivered by 2018 despite rail experts suggesting that this was impossible. . · On this programme, a culture seems to have grown whereby TfL’s management was only interested in presenting good news.

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Cognitive Blind Spots in Team Collaboration

LiquidPlanner

When properly configured, such systems facilitate good governance and offer reference data that may serve as a risk radar , helping teams identify a proverbial iceberg and prompt proactive course correction. Flyvbjerg et al, “Five Things You Should Know about Cost Overrun,” Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, vol.

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Are Remote Workers the Future of Green Business?

Teamweek

The Clean Air Act Amendment of 1990 required state governments to reduce air pollution. Over the next ten years, government involvement grew even stronger. government was encouraging companies to provide telecommuting options to their employees through the Commuter Choice Leadership Initiative. By 2001, the U.S.

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A Simple Formula to Calculate Employee Turnover Rate

Teamweek

This is especially true in the past two years, with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic being felt far more heavily in industries such as leisure, hospitality, and arts than government and finance. How to Calculate Employee Turnover Rate. So, how do you calculate employee turnover rate?

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Vietnam War Helicopter Memorial

Herding Cats

From Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times - Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Helicopter pilots and crew members risked their lives, again and again, to lead offenses, transport troops and save lives. Kink said, was not built by the government but “by the men who flew alongside our loved ones” in Vietnam. Nearly 50 years ago, Col.