It is time we revisited the discarded idea of management that is informed by the humanities
The end of the line for shareholder value
An impressive new study questions the legal and empirical basis of today’s corporate governance
Cul-de-sac
Gérard Depardieu’s bizarre tax odyssey speaks volumes about the loyalties of the 1 per cent
From muck to brass
How to create desire from detritus, wealth from waste, a future from financial meltdown
Consuming for Christmas
How consumers can help shift management thinking
Teachers’ pay: must do better
Paying teachers for performance sounds plausible. But like much in management, in practice it’s anything but
The wrong direction
Management has lost its way – and its power has sent business down a dangerous road
Outsourcing chickens come home to roost
Most outsourcing is the opposite of systems thinking – and its harmful effects are exactly what systems thinking would predict
Management theory was hijacked in the 80s. We’re still suffering the fallout
Good governance went out of the window when the Chicago school’s reductive view of human nature took hold
A code of malpractice
The City has been celebrating the success of its governance codes. It would do better to judge by the substance rather than the process