No one could have forseen in 1976 that 50 years later Apple would be one of the largest and most feted companies in the world. Not least of its strengths is the personal bond it has maintained with its customers.
The great divergence
Trump’s anti-diversity crusade and the ‘remasculinisation’ of the workplace make for tough times for America’s top corporate women The cannier ones are abandoning the manosphere for the entrepreneurial periphery where they can be, and are, strikingly successful on their own terms.
The UK’s economy doesn’t add up
Containing many of the ingredients of a surging modern economy, why does the UK’s so conspicuously fail to add up to the sum of its parts? Blame form over substance, talk over deed, and management that too often consumes the energy it ought to be creating
The runaway train of HS2
Shocking enough in itself, the fiasco of the UK’s high-speed rail showcase may derail essential infrastructure projects for years ahead
Lost in translation
The UK’s inability to speak other languages shapes its politics and economy in all manner of damaging ways.
Pets cornered
The CMA will soon put foward proposals to make the market for vet services more competitive. But Big Vet won’t easily change its spots.
Farewell to Charles Handy
Handy’s last book, The View from Ninety, is a moving epilogue to a long and well-lived life.
Corporate America in the firing line
The shooting of a chief executive on a New York street crosses a new threshold of violence. But given the dark thread running through US history it can hardly be seen as a surprise.
Adtech’s chamber of horrors
For most people advertising was generally just a minor nuisance. But that was before ad technology turned it into a nightmare of creepiness, political manipulation and crime.
Business flunks the culture wars test
Management’s responsibility is to democratic society, not the world’s least qualified boss.