Taking the biscuit. UK organisations need some quality control.
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Efforts to fix the UK’s failure to make more stuff and be more profitable focus too far up the chain.
It doesn’t have to be an uphill battle.
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How to beat Goliath when competing for the best talent: hire against stereotype and keep quiet when you find the right formula.
Shadow boxing. Will levelling the playing field work?
Orin Zebest
Removing names from CVs is a start, but we need to do much more to beat discrimination.
Michael Fassbender playing Steve Jobs.
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The latest Steve Jobs film does not shy away from showing the darker sides of his character and the cult of leadership that surrounded him.
Heads of the board.
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Lord Sugar’s approach to business leadership might make fun viewing but it doesn’t reflect the modern boardroom.
Calls are mounting for Jose Mourinho to get the sack.
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Is it better for a club to sack their manager now or wait until later?
The world in their hands. But were hopes for CSR over-inflated?
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How to make companies take seriously their responsibilities to the rest of us.
Flag carrier. Easyjet CEO Carolyn McCall.
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Measures to bring more female directors into the executive suite are failing to boost performance. Here’s why…
Awaiting a new model. Car firms struggle to adapt.
Dan Buczynski
Volkswagen’s example offers up a useful lesson in managing a troublesome hierarchy.
Consumer baiting?
Tom Simpson
Why do companies devote so much energy to ingenuity that causes harm?
Seeing behind the headlines on executive pay.
Richard Rutter
It is too easy to blame naked greed for rising CEO pay. New research signals that bosses are being compensated for the risk of the chop.
Diversity in the workplace doesn’t always offer advantages.
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Countries with ageing populations have plenty to gain from managing effectively across generations.
Global scrutiny has pummelled VW shares.
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The market reaction to the VW emissions scandal is just like that of a jilted lover.
Workplaces should try to eliminate situations where bullying can occur, rather than put responsibility on workers to behave nicely.
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Like cancer, bullying will affect a majority of employees during their working lives, as a victim, witness, or perhaps as the alleged bully. And like cancer, there’s no silver bullet to cure bullying.
Australia Post chief Ahmed Fahour is managing in difficult times.
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It’s easy to assign all of the wins and losses of a company to CEO performance, but when the going gets really tough it’s the teams behind them that matter.
After a hard day at work, children still expect their mom to spend quality time with them.
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How successful a mother or career scientist one can become depends on how one’s available time is divided between the two activities.
This is an unusual sight in business. Women are more likely to sit at the side of the room. The number one rule to be successful is to sit at the table.
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Women need to start believing in themselves to be successful. Men own their success but women attribute it to external factors. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg learned this a while back.
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There is an air of mysticism attached to high-growth companies: but in the main, they followed five golden rules.
Ringmaster. CEOs are playing to the crowd.
DirkJan Ranzijn
A cheerful assessment of the profit potential from a merger is an easy sell to eager investors.
Higher levels of EI have been linked with ethical behaviour - but it also takes some degree of interpersonal skill to manipulate others.
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It’s assumed good managers are intelligent, but do they also need emotional intelligence? And if that’s missing, can they learn?