Managing Change
It’s not just what you do but when you do it. If your business doesn’t change, as the world changes around you, it is very unlikely that you will be…
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?
The Joe Lewis Way
If only Joe Lewis would manage my pension fund. Joe Lewis, one of Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs and the 7th wealthiest person in the UK, who is rumoured to…
James Dyson for Prime Minister
Unfortunately, you can’t just wish your way out of a recession, or work harder, you need to innovate. The truly, truly, truly, wonderful recent idea, that Greece’s economic problems…
Irn-Bru To The Rescue
It looks like Roger White, the CEO of AG Barr, is onto something. There will be many of you reading this who have never tasted Irn-Bru. Well, the advert opposite…
Joint Ventures Don’t Work
You need complete control to make the most of any business. I once worked for someone who one day shouted at me across his rather palatial office “I will, never,…
Low Tech Wind
Being the biggest isn’t of much economic value if others can do what you do just as well. Vestas, the Danish company that can proudly claim to be the…
Copy Richard Branson
Being too much of a specialist is a burden when faced with radical change. If you had been in the railway business, when the first aeroplanes took to the…
East of Minnetonka
Is Cargill suffering more from poor leadership than it is from the failure of its trading instincts? Yes, there is a place called Minnetonka; in Minnesota, predictably enough. It…
Black & Yellow
Can Manganese Bronze fend off Nissan? Have you ever wondered how New York ended up with its yellow cabs? I’m taller than most, so I may be speaking just for…
Shakespeare’s Veolia
Aren’t utilities supposed to be boring? Surely, not even William Shakespeare could have made up such a fanciful tale as this. Wouldn’t you have thought that running a water utility…
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