Behind the death of primary headteacher Ruth Perry lies a model of regulation that fails every test
A burnt-out case
A sustainable management model has to work with the crooked grain of humanity, not against it. Burnout is the high price paid by employees when it doesn’t
Culture wars
The UK’s preference for muddling through to long-term thinking and making hard decisions has been tested to destruction by the crises of the last 15 years. It’s high time for a cultural reset
The hard lessons of 2022
2022 was a tough year all round. Taking some of its obvious lessons to heart would be a first step to making a better fist of 2023
Time for management to grow up
Drucker thought that good management was socially and politically as well as economically important. Now would be a good time to prove it
Sinking Britain
Twelve years of Brexit-obsessed Tory rule leave the UK on the slide, with a state that no longer knows how to govern or what it is for
The performance that really matters
We know how to do high performance: so why is it so rare?
Why management theory matters more than you think
Today’s dominant management theories are bad not just because they are wrong – but because they are in the process of becoming self-fulfilling
Unchaining Britannia: getting to the heart of the UK’s real productivity problem
It’s no secret that the UK has a productivity problem. But it’s not the one that the prime minister-in-waiting thinks it is – and her remedies will make it worse, not better.
Why hybrid working is management’s Great Reckoning
Bosses are desperate to get office workers back to their desks post-Covid. Employees think otherwise – and this time they may be in the driving seat.