These articles illustrate why leadership matters. Few great businesses are built without inspirational leadership and we can all learn from the people in the news who are doing this well. What can you learn from the people described in the articles below?
Successful entrepreneurs are often more aware of their own limitations than less successful ones. “The internet belongs to young people.” So says Jack Ma, the outgoing CEO of Alibaba, the Chinese domestic ecommerce powerhouse he founded in 1999. He’s going to hang around as executive Chairman, but a year ago he began to hand over […]
It might be a new experience for Wall Street but a periodic cull of the “oldies” has always happened to more senior workers. Take a look around your office and count the over fifties. In the UK, in more manual sectors, or jobs, you’ll still find them gainfully employed, but in white-collar and professional jobs […]
Businesses need both leaders and investors. In spite of all the doom and gloom in the economy retailers aren’t doing too badly. In the UK, Xmas sales from stores were up a little but online they were up by 18%. Taken together, that’s pretty good news for retailers provided they have the right balance between […]
Why it’s easier for a women to get the top job in a recession. I was drawn to today’s article in the Financial Times about the recent appointment of female CEO’s to two of the US’s biggest defence contractors, joining a third already in place: now three of the top six largest companies in this […]
The UBS decision to focus more is the first move in a new banking game. Over the past decade, the easiest way to have become a millionaire was to invest your billions in fashionable stocks before one or more of the speculative bubbles we have suffered burst. While some are born wealthy, others have to […]
Nokia’s desperate move to regain smartphone market share just won’t work, but it may delay the inevitable for a while. Finnish company Nokia, the once dominant smartphone manufacturer, is struggling badly. In the third quarter it shipped just 6.3M units, giving it a 4% market share, and it has now slipped outside the top three […]
In today’s world, focus is essential for success, particularly in retail. Supervalu Inc’s Chairman and CEO is Wayne C. Sales; he added the CEO’s role, to his role as Chairman, in July, when the former CEO was ousted, and now he’s got the business up for sale. All in all, dumping the CEO, and putting […]
Is there a better way to fail? I have failed at many things in my business career; fortunately, these failures have been interspersed with a few successes along the way. I’m not too sure what I have learned from success, as it’s often a pleasant experience and one to savour, so there isn’t too much […]
Just what will Kate Swann do next? I am somewhat surprised to find out just what a success story there is hiding behind the cluttered shelves, understaffed check outs, and long queues, in my local WH Smiths store. To be honest, it has come as quite a shock to find out just what a well […]
Yippie! The Bluebird of Happiness comes to retail banking. I have had an Amex card for many years, in fact, several cards, and my rather trendy Amex Blue credit card still gets admiring looks and questions from cashiers ten years or so after I first go it. Does anyone else have one in the UK, […]
