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Don’t fall for the fashion of the hardcore chief executive
- 12 Jul 2023
The best leaders should toggle between leadership styles according to the conditions
Workplace wellbeing: how to make it better — and what makes it worse
- 5 Jul 2023
New research shows work-related stress and health issues are rising, but flexibility and support from managers can help.
Lockdowns are over. WFH isn’t. Why?
- 28 Jun 2023
Each February, the team at NPR’s fabulous Planet Money podcast announce their Valentines, nerdy love letters to under-appreciated data releases or obscure supply-chain trackers.
Does it pay for British executives to move to the US?
- 21 Jun 2023
When Gavin Patterson moved to become a top executive at San Francisco-based tech company Salesforce in 2019 after a sometimes bruising few years running BT, there was one clear perk.
Psychological tests can help firms hire better — but accuracy is not guaranteed
- 14 Jun 2023
It was the closest I’ve come to seeing a therapist. After several hours of personality and aptitude tests for a hypothetical job at AlixPartners, it was time to talk to Jeremy Borys, a partner at the consultancy and an expert in organisational psychology. He wanted to discuss my “hard-wired personality structure”.
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The benefits of revealing neurodiversity in the workplace
- 7 Jun 2023
Michael Queenan used to retreat to his bed for the weekend at least once a month. “I was just physically and emotionally exhausted all of the time,” says the chief executive and co-founder of Nephos Technologies, a UK-based data services company. “It just got worse and worse and worse.”
Ginni Rometty: leadership, legacy and a new mission
- 30 May 2023
How do you define your legacy when the numbers stack up against you? Ginni Rometty, former chief executive and chair of IBM, is confronted by this conundrum every day.
How better Management can tackle causes of stress
- 25 May 2023
From financial counselling and meeting-free time to cycle races organised by staff “affinity” groups, employers around the world are exploring multiple ways to boost the mental and physical health of staff in a post-pandemic world.
Why the new workplace is a work in progress
- 18 May 2023
Asked at the World Economic Forum to sum up the future of work, Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, said: “We’re still learning because there has been real structural change ... There are new patterns of work emerging.”
Women struggle to close corporate America’s gender gap
- 11 May 2023
American corporations held the first diversity sessions in the late 1960s, instructing leaders who were overwhelmingly white and male on how to manage the workplace after the US made it illegal to discriminate against employees based on sex or race.
Workplace buzzwords to take seriously — and those to ignore
- 5 May 2023
There was a time when no one mentioned quiet quitting, Sunday scaries, bare minimum Mondays and all the other buzzwords that have come to infest the way people talk about work.
The mistakes companies make during job cuts
- 25 Apr 2023
Employers such as Goldman Sachs, Meta and Ford have laid off thousands of employees in recent months.
It is possible to hate your job but love your work
- 21 Apr 2023
People find meaning in all kinds of employment — but that can be eroded by low pay, bureaucracy and squeezed resources
We need to talk about voice privilege
- 4 Apr 2023
A good speaking voice is as much of an asset in work and life as physical beauty
Women have raced into the boardroom, but now comes the hard part
- 4 Apr 2023
What might an insurer, a housebuilder and two water companies have in common in early 21st-century Britain?
Management research: why are so few of its ideas taken up?
- 28 Mar 2023
In the past half century, the number of business schools, faculty and academic publications has mushroomed.
Tempting back older workers means ditching business as usual
- 23 Mar 2023
“Your country needs you” pleads UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt to the over-50s, echoing the concerns of Jay Powell at the Federal Reserve about the “excess retirements” which have drained America of 2mn workers.
Job cuts reveal an unconventional shift in worker power
- 21 Mar 2023
FT reporters often interview great business leaders, but we recently published a piece written by a CEO himself — Barclays’ CS Venkatakrishnan. Venkat, as he is known, has been undergoing treatment for cancer and wanted to share the lessons he’s learned.
Psychological safety: the art of encouraging teams to be open
- 17 Mar 2023
It is said to be the secret to finding and nurturing new music at one of the world’s biggest record companies. It is the key to encouraging a sovereign wealth fund’s asset managers to make more contrarian bets.
How to communicate better at work
- 11 Mar 2023
Millennial workers have long been branded “entitled” — often by their older bosses.
