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The proposition which New Labour offered the voters in 1997 was essentially a simple one. Labour was very like the Conservative party while...

Thinking clearly about risk is difficult: we are influenced by hopes, by regrets, and by an inability to evaluate new risks.

There is more vacuity about strategy than about any other topic in business today. But there is a real issue, and a real subject of strategy for the corporation.

A look at 1960s futurology suggests that we have been misled by one extraordinary sector, electronics, into exaggerating the rate at which the world around us is changing.

Much jargon is designed to conceal vacuity of thought. But technical terms have their place.

The view of business as necessarily selfish, narrow and instrumental, is, as it always has been, nonsense. Business which is selfish in motivation, narrow in outlook, and instrumental in behaviour is rarely successful business.

Buy a typical business book at the airport and you’ll find nothing with which to disagree. Which is the problem.

Doctor’s surgeries, supermarkets, and travel agents are all one-stop shops - which should tell us that there are different justifications for one-stop shopping.

While accounting firms are “going global”, their rationale for doing so does not apply to other industries.

The Tortoise, the Hare and the Management Consultant.