Yet the real reason for fading fads is not that executives have built into their everyday activities such now-familiar ideas as core competences and total-quality management.

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Some of their ideas are familiar.

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With decades of profound knowledge of football theory, Parreira was already fully familiar with Mourinho's ideas.

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Many of the stories are familiar, but as in his previous books, Mr Singh explains even the most complicated ideas with subtlety, grace and wit.

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The highly unorthodox fund would give money to inventors in places like Japan and China to work on ideas that were still in the early stages of development, says a person familiar with its operations.

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