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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.”
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.
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
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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.
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.
‘Big Brother’ managers should turn the lens on themselves
- 31 Jan 2023
Blue-collar workers are used to being monitored 24/7. Lean manufacturing facilities often have productivity screens right by work stations to see progress in real time — and gauge whether staff should get a bit extra at the end of the day or be docked for not working hard enough.
Bullying at work — why it happens, what can be done
- 17 Jan 2023
Shouting. Yelling. Personal attacks, while freeriding on his research. Those are some of the behaviours that Morteza Mahmoudi, a medical nano-scientist at Michigan State University, says he had to put up with from a senior colleague at a former employer, just as his career was taking off.
Legal heads face tough balancing act as they take the lead
- 20 Dec 2022
In today’s complicated policy environment, few business figures are more in the line of fire than the top company lawyer — thanks to rising pressure on companies from input prices, interest rates, and geopolitics.
The term ‘quiet quitting’ is worse than nonsense
- 13 Dec 2022
Employers have been trying to get inside their employees’ heads for more than a century.
The age of uncertainty for CEOs
- 6 Dec 2022
The chief executives of some of Europe’s top companies are on the way out. In recent weeks there has been a flurry of departures from the C-suite.
Refugee Council’s Enver Solomon: ‘Leadership is something you’re constantly trying to improve’
- 29 Nov 2022
Since Enver Solomon became chief executive of the Refugee Council in December 2020, Kabul has fallen to the Taliban and Russia has invaded Ukraine, both provoking a flood of refugees.
Middle managers — on the new front line of office life
- 22 Nov 2022
In her middle manager role, Catherine says she has experienced “more pressure” since the start of the pandemic than ever before.
Does your boss need to know about your side hustle?
- 1 Nov 2022
Having a side job outside of your nine-to-five is not simply a matter of extra time and energy. You’ll also have to determine when to disclose your new endeavour to your boss — if your company allows you to pursue it at all.
Why an executive coach is now a must-have for CEOs
- 25 Oct 2022
Leading a company “can be a lonely place”, observes the chief executive of a British retail chain, who wants to remain anonymous. “But this was magnified further during the pandemic.”
Office return stalls as UK staff cling to flexible working
- 18 Oct 2022
The return of workers to offices in the UK has stalled for the first time since the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, sparking frustration among some bosses even as their staff welcome new policies of hybrid working.
Civil servants under pressure to get back to desks
- 27 Sep 2022
Ministers have been told to increase pressure on UK civil servants to return to their desks, as the revolution in Whitehall’s post-Covid working patterns in the era of flexible working has become clear.
Seven lessons from a late-starting entrepreneur
- 23 Aug 2022
For more than 30 years as a journalist at the Financial Times, I have been fascinated by business. Then, I decided to launch one. For almost as long, I have inwardly groaned when reading simplistic, seven-point cheat sheets to start-up success. So, I decided to write one.
Why being a manager matters more than ever
- 2 Aug 2022
Management matters. Above all, managers matter. If nothing else, when managers fail, things have a tendency to go wrong.
