Simon Caulkin

The answer to shared services and outsourcing failures isn’t to do them better – it’s to do something else entirely

Cynics say that conventional management is a bit like witchcraft. Perhaps they have a point

Issacson’s magnificent biography tells a complicated and sometimes comic story

Top-heavy, narrowly focused approaches to running companies are doomed, argues this insightful author. Simon Caulkin relishes some fresh thinking on management

The high pay controversy won’t go away until we dispose of the myth that shareholders own companies

The government is considering changing employment law to make it easier for companies to hire people – ie sack them. It sounds plausible, until you look at the evidence

Everybody’s talking and writing about ‘responsible capitalism: it’s time to take action

Behind the rhetoric of crisis, the demise of the pension era is as much a product of economic ideology as circumstance

Today’s bureaucracy of accountability serves the hierarchy, not the work or the customer

Most people forget that management is not a universal benefit. It is first of all a cost – and the less of it the better