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Enduring lessons from the legend of Rothschild’s carrier pigeon
29 May 2013, Financial Times
Why do we devote more resources to training carrier pigeons and building fibreoptic links than to understanding military and business strategy?
The wrong sort of competition in energy
24 October 2012, Financial Times
Some complexity is unavoidable, but much of the complexity consumers experience is not.
Don’t expect markets to bend it like Beckham
29 December 2010, Financial Times
What is important in billiards is the result, not the play: and what matters in business and finance is the outcome, not the process. In business and finance, as in billiards, the imperfections are critical and you can anticipate the result, or understand the outcome, only by appreciating these imperfections.
The real cost to business of government guarantees
02 December 2009, Financial Times
The most effective control is other parties’ diligence in assessing the businesses with which they deal.
How the market proved no panacea for BT
18 November 2009, Financial Times
If you aim to create a dynamic, successful business, a state-owned utility is not the place to start.
First-class driving makes little economic sense
12 August 2009, Financial Times
The benefit of road improvements is principally the reduced time and strain on private motorists, not the economic advantages to road transport operators: that lesson should influence the way we plan our road networks. Fast roads for light traffic are much cheaper to build than superhighways.
Our banks are beyond the control of mere mortals
08 July 2009, Financial Times
Great and enduringly successful organisations are not stages on which geniuses can strut. They are structures that make the most of the ordinary talents of ordinary people.
Salutary lessons from the downfall of a carmaker
03 June 2009, Financial Times
The decline of GM is as instructive as its rise. The challenge of how to reconcile professional management with a culture of innovation remains for ever a central issue for management thinkers.
The fallacy of equating economic power with clout
25 March 2009, Financial Times
Dominance of an industry or activity is not the same as scale. International trade is conducted by individuals and businesses, not governments, and it is them, who negotiate the division of the value added trade creates.
28 February 2006, Financial Times
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