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In the spirit of our sound-bite age, I hereby summarize the main parties’ campaigns in a single word for each. For the Tories, it’s...
This is part of a series on what 14 years of Tory rule have delivered for Britain’s economy, society and standing in the world. The challenges...
This is part of a series on what 14 years of Tory rule have delivered for Britain’s economy, society and standing in the world. The challenges...
Tuesday was Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s first good day since the start of the election campaign. A snap poll by YouGov after the ITV leaders’...
Rishi Sunak’s bed of nails just got a lot more uncomfortable. The prime minister’s electoral strategy has focused on consolidating the...
Perhaps the most significant advantage that a ruling party has under the current British political system is the ability to decide the timing of the...
The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said, “all truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it...
Rishi Sunak’s election announcement on Wednesday afternoon was such a farce that people could be forgiven for ignoring what he said. The rain gave...
A British general election on July 4th almost certainly means the end of 14 years of Tory rule. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has finally put the...
At a recent conference, I was politely told off for using the term “emerging markets.” These days, I was informed, “we prefer” the “Global...
If the best management minds agree on anything, it is the importance of corporate focus. Peter Drucker repeatedly argued that deciding what not to...
The one thing that a divided Britain can agree upon is that Rishi Sunak is a disappointment. The Labour Party accuses him of clinging onto power...
The most striking change in economic thinking on the mainstream left is the end of its romance with free trade. Bill Clinton and Tony Blair believed...
Management theory is in a dismal state. The theory that dominated business thinking from the late 1970s onwards — call it neo-liberalism for short...
Who doesn’t think politicians are a worthless lot? Ministers talk in a mixture of management speak and focus-group cliche (“I hear what you’re...
The Greentree Estate in Manhasset, Long Island, is a strange mashup of Edith Wharton and Ian Fleming. The big house, one of the ancestral piles of the...
Michael Jensen, who died on April 2, did as much as any single thinker to shape modern financial capitalism, particularly as it is practiced in the...
There are lots of reasons to praise Dune 2. The cinematography is superb (see it in an IMAX if you can). The music is mesmerizing. Austin Butler’s...
These are boom times for antitrust lawyers. Not only is the volume of high-paying work exploding. On March 21, the Department of Justice added Apple...
Britain is an ethnic assimilation superpower. You could call it a diversity royal flush. With the ascension of Zambian-born Vaughan Gething as Welsh...
By tradition, broadsheet newspapers put political stories, domestic and foreign, in the front half of the paper and business and finance stories in...
You have to admire how much hard work is going into persuading us that we work too hard. Malissa Clark of Georgia Tech has recently added a new book, ...
Sometimes popular metaphors can be utterly misleading. Journalists routinely write about the relationship between Labour and business in terms of a...
Management advice is one of the world’s most successful industries. Business schools have turned into the training ground of the new elite....
Britain has seldom been friendly to second acts in life, particularly from politicians, but it is witnessing two very remarkable ones at the moment....
Tragedy or farce? It’s hard to decide which word gives the best flavor of British politics at the moment. Britain has to have an election before the...
The phrase “nanny state” used to be one of those automatic argument-winners, like “freedom and democracy” and “you sound like Hitler.”...
Business is under intense pressure to embrace social responsibility. Asset managers allocate billions on the basis of “ESG” (environmental, social...
On Jan. 15, the head of the Conservative Party’s election campaign, Isaac Levido, delivered a stark warning to backbench Tory MPs: Divided parties...
Family companies are the hidden engines of the global economy. More than 90% of all companies are family companies. These include many of the...
It’s that time of the year again — when educated people everywhere take a break from the office, disconnect their electronic devices and reread...
The United Kingdom’s Post Office debacle, which continues to dominate British politics despite military action against Houthi terrorists, is...
The death of Henry Kissinger last November created the world’s most exclusive job vacancy: that of wise man to the world. When he left his job as...
The end of win-win. In recent years, businesses have been shaped by the beguiling mantra of “win-win.” When confronted with any difficult choice...
This has not been a bumper year for business books. The biggest sellers have been unsatisfactory biographies. Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk told the...
Something odd is happening to the world’s most valuable resource. Time is simultaneously speeding up and slowing down. We live in a world of instant...