IN PRIVATE, Labour politicians acknowledge that managing by targets has gone too far. But changing direction is not so easy.
It ain’t what you change, it’s the way that you do it
SYMBOLICALLY dispatching conventional management by launching a model of the pointy-haired boss from the Dilbert comics and a copy of Frederick Winslow Taylor’s Scientific Management into lower space was easy. Following up the fireworks by getting 30 of t
Europe is out to get the fat cats Labour strokes
While soaring executive pay is high on the European agenda, in the UK New Labour is doing its best to keep capitalism safe for the extremely wealthy.
Ask the audience to get a million-pound answer
YOU MIGHT not immediately think of the TV show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? as a cutting-edge guide to business decision-making. But think again.
We can still defuse the ticking care timebomb
ADULT SOCIAL care, on which the Prime Minister has just launched a public consultation, is widely considered a financial timebomb.
Full Marx if you can see history repeating itself
TO PIECE TOGETHER the fragments of today’s worldwide crisis is to grapple with a sense of deja vu.
Labour’s public sector is a Soviet tractor factory
IT’S TIME TO face up to the unpalatable truth – Labour’s public-service reforms have failed.
Supply chains should be kept on a short leash
The big business idea of the last 20 years is going rancid. Why do organisations of all kinds continue to get outsourcing so wrong?
A century on, the MBA still has lessons to learn
THE MBA is 100 years old this month. Is it a happy birthday? It all depends how you look at it.
Only a new brew can save pubs
Pubs are shutting down at record rates, but an institution that dates back to Roman times will survive by changing