The articles below illustrate the importance of risk management. Businesses often end up taking much bigger risks than they intended and you should learn something from that and not do what they do. The future is always uncertain; take small steps forward so you can at least survive if things go wrong.
Just look what happens when you don’t invest and protect the source of your competitive advantage. AstraZeneca, the world’s fifth largest drugs company, measured by prescription drug sales, saw its…
Apple marketeers are as worthy of the epithet “genius” as anyone working in its shops, but this time they are perhaps just a little premature. EXTERIOR: St Albans High Street,…
Are penitential firings of proven business leaders really necessary? Measured on most yardsticks of business performance Nick Buckles, the CEO of G4S, has proven himself. He has created huge amounts…
How are the Glazer family’s clever financial games working out for them? The purchase of Manchester United football club, by the Glazer family in 2005, was in the form of…
“Q: When is a debt not a debt? A: When it’s fallen off the balance sheet.” The official unemployment figure in the UK is about 8%, that’s about 2.5M people.…
“Can Airbnb establish a global rental accommodation brand?” A year ago Airbnb, a peer-to-peer home rental website, “raised $112M in funding, valuing it at $1.3bn, according to people close to…
“Mouchel is just the latest in a long line of businesses who take on too much risk in order to grow.” Mouchel has come an awfully long way since 1877…
“You need to change your style of leadership as you grow.” There is no doubt that Chesapeake Energy, an oil and gas company located in Oklahoma City, USA, has done…
“IPOs have fallen out of favour because investment banks have broken the implicit deal with the purchaser.” Post Purchase Cognitive Dissonance (PPCD) is the phrase given to the state of…
“I have five fundamental principles that I believe underpin most successful businesses, rarely do I come across a company that flaunted them all.” Someone told me once that businesses tend…