More than four weeks after Bob Diamond left Barclays, there is no successor to the bank’s former CEO.
Centrally governed multinational companies are struggling to compete with domestic competitors in emerging markets, yet are unwilling to adapt their approach to flexibility, according to new research...
Just hours after Bob Diamond’s resignation as Chief Executive of Barclays Bank, The Times reported Barclays employees as saying, “Who is going to do Bob Diamond’s job now?” “Where are we going to get...
Poor management and leadership are holding back the UK’s economic growth, according to a new report from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Industry restructuring has tremendous impact on people made redundant, and companies rightly offer outplacement and other support services to those unfortunate enough to lose their jobs.
Three quarters (75%) ranked having a "strategic vision" as the single most important skill in running a business, with building a strong team the second most important attribute and sustaining focus...
More than four out of five chief executive officers and senior executives say they are not adequately supported during periods of leadership transition and find themselves in the position whereby they...
There has been much talk about the ‘new normal’ for business in 2012. We are getting used to a tougher market and moving from a survival frame of mind to ‘practical growth’.
In The Book of Yo! (Capstone), Simon Woodroffe, founder of Yo! Sushi and ‘dragon’ on the first series of the BBC’s Dragons’ Den, writes about the mindset he adopted when facing the challenge of...
For many business leaders, the boundaries between manipulation and influencing are often clouded.
In my first year at university, we were set an essay to discuss that ‘the business of business is business’. Former GM CEO Alfred P Sloan was the originator of this quotation, embellished in 1970 –...
Employee confidence in management is falling with almost half of employees believing themselves to be better people managers than their own boss.
