Tag: Business
New York’s wonder shows planners’ limits
If unplanned social interactions are the key to a vibrant city, they are also the key to a vibrant organisation.
On the brink of a shadow drink industry
Restriction of business on moral grounds is not always unsuccessful but measures have to be applied with great care.
Even a subpar Sage is pure genius
The most remarkable thing about Warren Buffett’s achievements is not that no one has rivalled his record, it is that almost no one has seriously tried to emulate his investment style.
Only fools claim to know the future
Good players don’t forecast the future, but adapt to it.
Starbucks shows need for tax change
The hypothetical world which the arm’s length principle envisages is one which could not generate the profits which the principle attempts to tax.
Corporate tax should be fair and shared
Ireland accounts for a share of global profit disproportionate to the size of the Irish economy. Not because business in Ireland is particularly successful but because reporting profits in Ireland is particularly attractive.
The wrong sort of competition in energy
Some complexity is unavoidable, but much of the complexity consumers experience is not.
The brashness and bravado in big deals
Commercial decisions often reflect policy-based evidence, not evidence-based policy. Doing the deal is what matters; justification comes afterwards.
Why Sony did not invent the iPod
Narratives of industry evolution often represent fairy tales constructed by corporate financiers, or ambitious chief executives. They relentlessly seek rationale, however spurious, for the next deal.
Why do we need to pay billions of pounds for big...
The argument that we need the best and latest is powerful in political decision making, even among people who would never behave that way in their everyday lives.
