Think of this: a secret-service boss in Berlin spends years trying to frustrate the activities of spooks run by another spymaster.
"A lot of incidents just can't be picked up by video only systems, " said Chris Mitchell, Audio Analytic's boss, on BBC World Service's Digital Planet.
Last month, a senior boss at West Midlands Ambulance Service said patients the region were suffering because hospital bed and staff shortages meant ambulances were unable to unload patients.
After a spell in business and a few years at the Treasury, he was enticed to King's College, Cambridge, which 61 years earlier another economist-aesthete, John Maynard Keynes, had joined as a lecturer, writing (with his mother's help) a letter of resignation from the civil service to his boss, a Sir Arthur Godley.
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The scrapping of a fire control centre for south-west England will allow Devon and Somerset fire crews to provide the best service, a fire boss has said.
More details have emerged about the web storage service being set up by Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom.
Blues boss Dai Young was delighted his side could be of service to their west Wales rivals.
Scottish Power boss Ignacio Galan said the energy giant had created 300 customer service jobs in Glasgow.
An early indication of the new boss's attitude came with his appointment last year of Hector Sants, former boss of the UK's banking watchdog, the Financial Service Authority, to head the Barclays' compliance department.
For Thai Farmers Bank's billionaire boss Banthoon Lamsam, it means only one thing: Build a service-oriented staff.
He launched online trading two decades later, took his firm public in 1997 and built a national name during the dot-com boom by offering cut rates, bare-bones service and Stuart, a ponytailed spokesman who taught his boss how cool it was to trade online.
In my research, I've also found that fewer than 20% of nascent business owners intend to introduce a new product or service, and a simple desire to be your own boss is as frequent a motivation as a new business idea. (I'll leave the policy implications of subsidizing the nonpecuniary aspects of business ownership for another discussion.) Broad-based programs lump all of these very different businesses together.
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But Ofcom's boss, Ed Richards, argues that if you believe in public-service broadcasting you have to believe in making it free for everyone.
He said the NHS needed a boss who could sometimes tell the government that the policy being pursued was damaging the health service.
They seemed genuinely happy for their boss, who, as if she were not busy enough, helps them study for civil service promotion exams on her own time.
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