IF, AFTER 30 years of effort, the only solution on offer to a problem is to ‘try harder’, you know there’s something wrong with the premise. So it is with City pay.
‘Trust me, I’m a manager.’ Doesn’t work, does it?
As today’s banking paralysis demonstrates, trust is something business can’t do without. It isn’t some fuzzy nice-to-have it’s the lubricant without which the City and Wall Street are as frozen as a rusted motor.
Economic model for sale: several careless owners
ONE OF the glaring fault lines running through the financial crises of recent years is ownership. In the days of hedge funds and day-trading, who owns companies? And what rights and obligations does ownership bring?
It’s a fine mess you’ve got us into now get us out
MANAGEMENT IS mostly left out of the pontificating about the credit crisis. But we’re now beginning to see how much it matters
In Tarzan v Jane, Tarzan gets the bigger bonus
Pay parity between men and women still seems as unlikely as finding Elvis on the moon.
Why size doesn’t matter in deciding bosses’ pay
ONE OF the thorniest business conundrums of the past 30 years has been top management pay.
Now we see it: the free market isn’t always right
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.
Workplace skills are hard to find at head office
ONE OF the fallacies earnestly and unquestioningly maintained by New Labour is that we live in a primarily individual economy.
If you want to be productive, get disorganised
Messy is sometimes more efficient than neat and tidy.
How to make $4bn without really managing
YOU CAN love Google or hate it – or perhaps a bit of both – but you can’t deny its extraordinary effectiveness.