MSS.423/3/LONG 11

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┆Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets; side 1 of recording ends on page 18): increased focus on stable markets in Europe, the United States and Japan following oil crisis of the early 1970s (1-3); various lead-times for bringing new publishing products to market (3-6); effect of collapse of the Nigerian market in 1982 on Longman and other educational publishers (6-10); development of Longman's multi-national operations and of strategic thinking in the company (10-18); tendency of people working at Longman and other publishing companies to avoid internal conflict, with the exception of ambitious women (21-24); varying amounts of discussion at board meetings at different periods (26-28); Jaguar management structure (described for comparison) (30-31).

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