A touch posting for any captain of industry
Sometimes there are stranded businesses - once successful companies whose competitive advantage has disappeared. Does Barclays new chief executive find himself in this position?
The public always comes last in trade talks
What went wrong at Cancun? The core problem is that industrial pressure groups have gained too much influence on economic policy.
Why fat cats are bad for business
Greed perceived as a quality rather than as a defect has had serious consequences to the business world.
Big egos inflate executive pay, not markets
When genuine market operations are absent executive pay is seen as a measure of value rather than just a financial reward
Department of Trade and Industry/Forum for the Future
Lessons from ICI’s transformation; a lecture at the Department of Trade and Industry/Forum for the Future.
Take the politics out of fiscal policy
Even though there is a case for leaving the responsibility of fiscal policy to the government, there is an even greater need for achieving the discipline and the same kind of objective assessment that has worked so well for monetary policy
Weaving the fine fabric of success
From the eighteenth century history of John Kay of Bury and John Kay of Warrington, we learn that creative skills and management skills are very different.
Incentive plans that corrode integrity
If profit related pay works for CEO's, then why not have growth related pay for the Chancellor? History tells us why this is a bad idea
Business can be a Nobel pursuit
The gap between American universities and the rest of the world is widening. The week in which the Nobel Prizes are awarded is an opportune time to ask why.
Britain counts the cost of wasted energy
With one short sentence uttered in 1965, Fred Lee, then Britain's minister for power, encapsulated the government's hopes of providing ...