Others may be winding down but I have been toiling over the entries for the 2004 Barely Managing Awards. Hardly a country, research institute or executive suite has escaped my gaze. There were a few hard calls and, inevitably, some will be disappointed. To the winners: congratulations. To the losers: there is always 2005.
Enough with the pleasantries. The winners are: Best Piece of Research Proving the Bleeding Obvious. Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College for a study showing that people who receive threatening e-mails suffer greater distress than those who receive non-threatening e-mails.
