Probing questions from the UK’s foremost thinker on work and society
Art and entrepreneurship
What art and business can learn from each other
Customer-led growth – un-natural impossibility or the route to growth that lasts?
It sounds obvious – but experience shows it is much more complicated than you think
Fawlty Towers-sur-Seine
Technology doesn’t mean you can dispense with management
Size matters – but not in the way you think
It’s not that the banks are too big but that their managements are too small
The alliance against optimism
Why a gloomy dominant narrative is depressingly hard to shift
How the government does business in the public sector
The government is no friend of small enterprise
Pro- or anti-business: a shamefully irrelevant debate
There are good reasons for being unfriendly to business in its present form
Is management headed for boom or doom?
How business chooses to exploit the opportunities technology creates will be crucial
Taxing times
HMRC – or How Management Royally Cocked up