Simon Caulkin

Mervyn King’s remarks are an epitaph not just for the banks but for a whole way of doing business

If traditional economics is a zombie that needs garlic, a cross and a stake through its heart, then that goes for traditional management too

We know more about medicine than management. Before launching yet another central reform managers should take their own Hippocratic oath: first, do no harm

The Big Society is like sex: people either talk about it or do it. By and large, those who are at it too busy to pontificate, and of course vice versa. It’s like sex in another way too: to put it crudely, those who are treated sensitively and as equals

Fixing capitalism isn’t just booting out tired old theories. Taking on vested interests is just as important

Blueprint for Lansley: why big change in the NHS has to start at the bottom not the top

The Davos worldview now seems as passé as Dallas. The new business realities are being formulated not in the plush Swiss town but on instant networks like Twitter

Apple’s secret – and Jobs’ lasting legacy – is its mechanisms for developing close customer relationships

Ideas that the Great Crash should have killed off for good still clutter the management landscape

Forget appeals to bankers’ ‘sensitivity’: the way to cut bonuses is to attack their obscene and artificial profits