Simon Caulkin

MANAGEMENT IS mostly left out of the pontificating about the credit crisis. But we’re now beginning to see how much it matters

Pay parity between men and women still seems as unlikely as finding Elvis on the moon.

ONE OF the thorniest business conundrums of the past 30 years has been top management pay.

It’s not just house prices and growth rates that have tumbled down in the credit crunch. It’s the whole easy assumption that the market knows best.

ONE OF the fallacies earnestly and unquestioningly maintained by New Labour is that we live in a primarily individual economy.

Messy is sometimes more efficient than neat and tidy.

YOU CAN love Google or hate it – or perhaps a bit of both – but you can’t deny its extraordinary effectiveness.

Why power-sharing beats the traditional plc. But there are plenty more – and they’re thriving.

With recession perilously close, the credit crunch is presenting a generation of British managers with a novel and unwelcome prospect: managing through adversity. Though busts are as much part of the cycle as booms,managers appear no better prepared this

Management consultancy shows a gravity-defying ability to keep on growing – despite the lack of any real proof that it does any good.