The toughest game: high passion, intense pressure and weak control are a frustrating mixture for chief executives of football clubs

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Football club chief executives are generally appointed when times are critical and the club is threatened with extinction. Their role is ambiguous and their ultimate survival depends on actual football results over which they have almost no control.

Personnel administration, Human resource management, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Chief executive officers, Soccer teams, Company personnel management

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Game for anything: Greg Willet has developed a profitable business by managing the finances-and sometimes the lives-of his sports star clients

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Greg Willett, a football player and an accountant has turned a small firm into a fully-fledged sports management and accounting business. Willett says he played most of the match worrying of being injured rather than concentrating on the match.

Management Development, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Accountants, Willett, Greg

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Pipe dreams at Rinker: Chief Executive David Clarke believes its share price will keep rising, despite a higher dollar and weaker U.S. markets

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The rise in the Rinker Group's share price and its increasing profits are examined. According to the company's chief executive, this rise will continue despite warnings of a housing slowdown in Australia and the United States.

Construction, Engineering Services, Securities issued, listed, Engineering & Architectural Svcs, HEAVY CONSTRUCTION, EX. BUILDING, GENERAL BUILDING CONTRACTORS, Construction industry, Securities, Company securities, Rinker Group Ltd., RIN

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