Simon Caulkin

The principles are fine – but when will someone get up and call a spade a spade?

Like zero-hours contracts, most of today’s call-centre work is indefensible in principle and criminally inefficient

Without changing governance rules, asking companies to pay more tax is like requiring sharks to go vegetarian

Truth will out – but not always in the ways you expect

If payment by results is such a good idea, why does it so often end up producing results that are the opposite of those intended?

Until the left figures out the difference, the economy will continue to malfunction

James Caan has joined the 260 tsars created since 1997. Too many have been window-dressing, appointed on a political whim

The only way to alter corporate behaviour is to change the rules

Power in organisations is omnipresent and necessary – but its unwelcome side-effects need institutional challenge

Much more than an investor, Warren Buffett is probably the best manager in the world