Management is a mess, and refettling it for a digital age will be a formidable test. But there are solid building blocks to work from – and the scope for improvement is huge.
Private equity: riding for a fall?
Private equity partners have become rich beyond the dreams of avarice since the Great Crash – now their reckless greed could bring the whole edifice crashing down
The dangerous weirdness of the very rich
Extreme wealth is bad for one’s health – and increasingly for that of the rest of us too
The high cost of low pay
A new book shows that low pay is a choice, not an inevitability. But the obvious remedy – raising it – will be a tough act for managerially-challenged UK business and politicians
Crisis management
The next UK government will face the biggest management challenge since world war two: rethinking the ‘strategic state’ for a post laissez faire world. The private sector should not be left out of the reckoning
AI: second time lucky?
As we should know by now, not everyone gains from new tech at work – broad-based wins have to be fought for. In AI’s case that would be easier had some giant nettles been grasped earlier
Robots at the gate
Given stellar pay for mediocre performance by many human CEOs, the day of the AI-powered chief executive may be closer than you think
Schools regulation: in the stupid corner
Behind the death of primary headteacher Ruth Perry lies a model of regulation that fails every test
A burnt-out case
A sustainable management model has to work with the crooked grain of humanity, not against it. Burnout is the high price paid by employees when it doesn’t
Culture wars
The UK’s preference for muddling through to long-term thinking and making hard decisions has been tested to destruction by the crises of the last 15 years. It’s high time for a cultural reset