Simon Caulkin

THE SPECTACLE of British companies queuing up to renege on their pension obligations is nature’s way of saying that there’s something mortally wrong with modern shareholder capitalism.

The endorsement of the environment as business by the world’s most formidable industrial company is worth more than all the world’s corporate social responsibility programmes.

Binge management is a debilitating condition affecting much of UK management. Symptoms include hypochondria, panic attacks, addiction to dieting and round-the-clock consumption of miracle remedies.

The long-term effects of bad service are catastrophic.

Even the green campaigner thinks capitalism can save the planet.

ACCORDING to a study by the consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton, of all the value destroyed by the largest US companies between 1999 and 2003 (including Enron, Tyco and friends), just 13 per cent was the result of failures of regulatory compliance or board ov

For Drucker, the heart of management was people – orchestrating individual effort so that it became more than the sum of its parts, amplifying strengths and neutralising weaknesses.

Forget marketing, a new book claims that the narrative thread is all.

Give control back to employees if you want them to be less pressurised

Collusion between the City and top executives is killing real investment.