There’s quite a lot to be said for getting the trains to run on time
Corporate killing fields
Many modern work practices are a danger to health, argues Jeff Pfeffer in an important and angry new book
British immigration policy is a monument to British mismanagement
Awful policy and a targets culture have have wrecked lives, outraged the public and left the government’s reputation in tatters
Understanding measurement madness
A new book describes how obsession with metrics leads us increasingly astray
Hidden ways technology is reshaping the economy
Parts of the physical economy are disappearing into an invisible digital one that is eating jobs and companies – and all industries are affected.
We need to talk about British management
UK political and management failings are all of a piece
The great levellers
Growing inequality is forcing capitalism and democnracy apart
Carillion: for whom the bell tolls
The failed construction company is another example of the UK’s penchant for ending up with the worst of all worlds
Hold the front page
Newspapers need to recognise their own management shortcomings if they are to survive
The slow murder of the listed company
Companies should be society’s engine of discovery and progress, and management more than a job – a colling