Deborah Marriott Harrison (pictured), grand-daughter of the founder of the eponymous hotel group, came late to the family firm, by recommendation, after raising five children. In an exclusive...
Next month marks the 400th anniversary of the completion of the King James Bible, arguably the most influential book in the English language.
The UK is facing a crisis that is “the economic equivalent of war”, Vince Cable, secretary of state for Business, Innovation and Skills, told the Lib Dem party conference last month in a speech short...
We’ve all been there: hour-long meetings in which staff add their pennyworth, managers do the right ‘HR’ thing by listening – and then everyone walks out without any decisions being made. Worse still,...
As companies grow, so they get more complicated, right? Wrong. There’s good and bad complexity and the latter can cost you, both in people and money terms. So, reduce the bureaucracy and liberate...
Policies to limit demand, increase productivity or up the use of private money in healthcare should be seriously considered while there is still time, according to a new report by the Institute of...
There I was, puffing and panting around Ladywell Park in Lewisham in the name of keeping fit on Monday night, when I saw what looked like a line of worker ants coming up the path. They weren’t ants,...
Dramatic events that continue to unfold at News Corp have all the elements of a great News of the World story.
Dr Simon Collinson, professor of international business and innovation at Warwick Business School, will exclusively reveal the results of a groundbreaking study into the causes and consequences of...
Can you teach leadership? The countless providers of leadership courses, exercises and tools out there would shout a resounding ‘yes’ to this question – and no doubt have many examples to prove it....
How do you make old Rosy Lee sexy? That is the challenge facing Nalin Miglani, HR boss of Tata Global Beverages, whose Tetley brand is the UK’s second-biggest in market share. He is confident he can...
When the man behind the proposals to shake-up the UK’s banking industry last month said bonuses in the sector had been partly financed by the taxpayers’ bailout, citizens in the blogosphere went...
