In fact, Railtrack, and the management structure that came with it, was by a long way our largest problem.

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Public-housing estates, she argues, should be seen as a resource more than as a problem: making estates more attractive places to live by getting local people involved in their management would not only improve tenants' lives but would remove the cost of housing them elsewhere.

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Crisis management experts know that customers and the general public are more likely to judge an organization by how it handles a problem than how it got into the problem in the first place.

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