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IN THIS ISSUE
Q&A With Harriet Green, CEO, Premier Farnell plc
A Wealth of Information at Your Fingertips
Management Blogs & Sites of Note
Calendar of Events for Executives
Q&A WITH HARRIET GREEN, CEO, PREMIER FARNELL PLC

Harriet GreenHarriet Green won the Stevie Award for Best Executive in EMEA in the 2007 Stevie Awards for Women In Business.

What book are you currently reading?
I love reading and often have more than one book on the go at a time. I am currently reading A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman.

What was the last movie you saw and would you recommend it?
The Lives of Others, a German film that won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and I would recommend it to everyone—it's so powerful.

What is your favourite sport/hobby?
I do Yoga every day wherever I am in the world. As well as giving me physical exercise, it affords me the time to stop and do something completely different, something for me. I passionately believe that we all need to make time to do something for ourselves every day, it's so important for our own state of being. I can do Yoga anywhere—my office, home, hotel—and have even done it in the aisle of a plane on a long-haul flight. I've practiced Yoga now for twelve years and it's very important to me. In addition, I love to read and can loose myself in my imagination and a great book. I have a huge book collection, and as I have moved around the world to live and work my book collection has always travelled with me.

Who is your favourite historical figure?
Napoleon or Queen Elizabeth I.

Who is your favourite living person?
I'm going to upset someone whoever I say, but right now it's our teenage daughter who has just shown what sheer hard work and commitment can do by achieving straight A grades in her important school exam retakes. After not doing so well, she has changed her approach, bounced back, worked hard, and is determined to get great grades. I'm very proud of her.

If you could choose another profession what would it be?
A successful actress.

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A WEALTH OF INFORMATION AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

Dow Jones Wealth Manager won a Stevie Award for Best New Media Service at the 2007 American Business Awards presented in New York City last June. We look at how this service for financial advisors can benefit the end user.

DJWMHave you noticed any improvement recently in the information that your financial advisor has been providing on wealth management? Are you getting more updates on how to improve the handling of your funds? And is your advisor also providing more relevant information on your favorite sports, hobbies, and interests outside the financial sphere?

This could well be because he or she has plugged into a new Web-based service from Dow Jones & Company/Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. Dow Jones Wealth Manager is a new online tool providing its users with, literally, a wealth of information, scouring not just the highly respected Dow Jones publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and SmartMoney, but also The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and a myriad trade and specialist publications, for useful news.

The benefit to those of you with large amounts to manage and invest is that your advisor now has this wealth of information at his or her fingertips. By utilizing the Dow Jones Wealth Manager your advisor is able to comb through relevant topics quickly and pass pertinent information on speedily, thus providing greater opportunities to profit from that information.

If wealth preservation, alternative investments, international investments, or retirement are as important to you as investing in art, fine wine, or simply playing golf, and your wealth manager is not already using this invaluable service, perhaps you should encourage him/her to do so. Here are some of the resources offered:

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MANAGEMENT BLOGS & SITES OF NOTE

Blogs, or web logs, are all the rage these days. Each month in this space we'll point you to several blogs that we think might be of interest to you.

Freakonomics Blog : Blog by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, authors of Freakonomics.
Learned on Women : A woman (Andrea Learned) writing about the ins and outs of reaching women consumers, and covering more traditionally male-dominated industries like outdoor sports, consumer electronics, and the radio industry.
HyperThinker : A kind of FaceBook for the business world.
I can has cheezburger : Find out what's making your kids laugh.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR EXECUTIVES
Events of Interest to Senior Managers
December 6 : Awards ceremony of 2nd annual Selling Power Sales Excellence Awards , Las Vegas, Nevada
December 14 : Early-bird entry deadline for 6th annual American Business Awards
January 2008: official Call for Entries issued for 6th annual American Business Awards
February: official Call for Entries issued for 5th annual International Business Awards
March 31 : Final entry deadline for 6th annual American Business Awards