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Guest Blogger, Richard Donkin (author of Blood Sweat and Tears, The Evolution of Work and Financial Times columnist on work and careers) returns to the COA Solutions blog to discuss how to manage in the current downturn.

Recessions and downturns often offer great opportunities for business start ups. They do so because entrepreneurs who begin trading in hard times must learn to be agile, frugal and inventive if they are to survive…

COA Solutions Guest Blogger Richard Donkin is the author of Blood Sweat and Tears, The Evolution of Work and Financial Times columnist on work and careers. Based in Woking in the UK he works as a commentator and writer on management and employment issues. His book, Blood Sweat and Tears, was warmly received and extensively reviewed in the US and UK (Times Literary Supplement, Washington Post, New York Times, Time, The Economist). His FT column has been appearing since 1994.

If you could increase staff productivity and save thousands, even millions of pounds in overhead, depending on your company size, you would, wouldn’t you?

Apparently not, according to recent research carried out on behalf of BT Business and Nortel. It found that nine out of 10 managers did not trust their staff to work from home.

You’ll mostly be cheered to know that it is bleak mid-winter in the private equity world.

Jon Moulton talks about the current state of private equity funding and how it needs to invest for the long term.

COA Solutions was very well represented last Thursday 30th October at the Sift Media Business Software Satisfaction Awards 2008 at the Brewery in London.

Version One attended the glitzy DM Awards 2008 ceremony at The Tower Hotel in London last night and came away with yet another award in recognition of the company’s quality document management products.

In a HARDtalk interview broadcast on 2 September, Allan Little talks to private equity financier John Moulton.

I attended a very useful session yesterday run by the Cranfield University School of Management on ‘Marketing and Sales in a recession’. I was doubly interested as COA Solutions is running a similar event in September, only this time aimed at financial executives with a slightly more upbeat title, ‘How to prosper in a downturn’.

COA Solutions is exhibiting its full range of human resource (HR), payroll, time and attendance and HR analytics systems on stand H122 at the HR Software Show (18 – 19 June at Olympia Conference Centre, London).

We’re very excited at the prospect of receiving an International Green Hero award on Monday 2nd June at the Tower of London.