Sometimes leadership is simply a matter of thorough alignment between management and workforce on the vision and the plan as well as financially. Since the Frank Appel became chief executive of Deutsche Post DHL in 2008, he has sought to make the German postal service and international courier an engaging place to work. The humdrum […]

Leadership is a much over-used word but it seem to us it has never been more relevant in making employees align with the task in hand, both in large companies and small. In this article in the FT, Rupert Soames tells how he volunteered for the job of leading Serco, whose public-sector contracts include running […]

Where business people once might have talked about golf — the sporting pursuit that essentially combines a gentle stroll with gossip, dealmaking and conviviality — they now want to signal proficiency in solitary endurance eventing. This is no accident because, as the entrepreneur Bruce Eckfeldt argued in an article for Forbes last year, training for […]

Mark Tucker, the incoming chairman of HSBC, is in a hurry to find a successor for Stuart Gulliver as chief executive of Europe’s biggest bank by assets and plans to announce the board’s choice this year. While its board of directors is under no obligation to bring in an outsider, HSBC has instructed several headhunting […]

Business has been transformed but its hard-won excellence is under threat. Its really great to see how we have moved on in the last 30 years. See the rest of the story in the FT at https://www.ft.com/content/251edea6-4518-11e7-8519-9f94ee97d996.