FT column: The volunteer spirit that binds a team more than cash
If you have room left in your 2015 diary, then volunteer. If you feel overwhelmed by work — the main reason UK citizens claim they cannot devote time to a good cause — then volunteer. It will teach you...
View ArticleFT column: Who will train the new generation of ‘plug and play’ workers?
Mary Barra is a lifer, born and bred to do the job she now holds. But as General Motors’ chief executive pointed out in an interview last week at the World Economic Forum, few young Americans now...
View ArticleFT column: Lord Green’s shame is a setback for purposeful leadership
I am angry with Stephen Green. I am angry in part because HSBC’s former chairman (now Lord Green) presided over a financial institution where, it turns out, oversight was so distant that large-scale...
View ArticleFT column: Pack power beats lone wolf lawyers, accountants and consultants
A colleague who headed an overseas editorial bureau of the Financial Times once called me to ask my advice: did I think he should devote more time to managing the journalists in his team or to writing...
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Zappos and how to manage a move to self-management
Self-manager: Zappos' Tony Hsieh © Zappos When I first wrote last year about Zappos’ efforts to introduce a self-managing system called Holacracy, I said that for most companies to adopt such an...
View ArticleFT column: Relegation fear works on the pitch but not in the office
“I have won a lot of promotions and been at Wembley and won the play-offs, [but] I think, individually, this was the biggest result.” If you follow sport at all, you get used to hyperbole. But this...
View ArticleFT column: Hand data to employees to make wearable tech bearable at work
Frederick Winslow Taylor is the ghost in the room at debates about new ways of monitoring staff. As the pioneer of “scientific management”, he was the man with a clipboard and stopwatch timing factory...
View ArticleFT column: Selecting a know-all chief executive is just plain dumb
When Deutsche Bank named John Cryan as its new chief executive three weeks ago, the commentary had an insidious subtext. He has “an enormous brain”, one friend told the FT. “Very thoughtful,” said a...
View ArticleFT column: Tiny signs of a coming scandal — and how to spot them
Habitual lateness, mild abuse of the corporate credit card, a little grousing by outgoing employees about low pay or overwork: the day to day dysfunctions of many large businesses. But could these be...
View ArticleFT column: Netflix needs to devote time to nurturing its new baby
Netflix’s new family leave policy — unlimited paid time off for parents in the first year after a child’s birth or adoption — is great. But it would be even better if the video streaming company could...
View ArticleFT column: Alphabet makes time a resource Google can ill afford to waste
Explaining the unboxing of Alphabet, Google’s new parent, Larry Page, its chief executive, said appointing someone else to run the search company “frees up time for me to continue to scale our...
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