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LONDON — I am still at it. Reading some of the magazines that have stacked up on my desk. Do you remember Jack Stack? The improbably named head of a small unit of International Harvester who is seen as the father of open-book management? He’s in this same issue of Inc Magazine talking about his daughter’s [...] A PACKED TRAIN TO STAMFORD BRIDGE — I liked this quote I have just read in Inc magazine. Entrepreneurial leaders were asked what people should do right now to energise their employees and get the business back on track: Training sometimes seems like a small thing but it is actually the first step in empowering people [...] LONDON — Everyone seems to be interested in this. It’s a code word for lots of different things. In today’s economy some are using it as a way of saying “how do we make people like the business when so many bad things have happened?” Others want to find a way of helping people focus [...] JOHNS ISLAND, S.C. — I should know better than to write about this. Not least because no one can be as big a bully as the folks I am about to write about. I am still struck by the shape, size and volume of churches in the United States of America. And I am also surprised [...] CHARLESTON, S.C. — There are many things that surprise you when you return to the States after a long time away: People are nice. There are lots of churches. The space. The advertising, everywhere. But most of all the cost of things. I filled my rental car from almost empty, and it cost me $17. That’s seventeen [...] SOUTH KENSINGTON — I was speaking to a friend who is a Master of the Universe. He’s in hiding now. Not wearing his leotards in daylight. But he’s just as busy. Doing… stuff… Buying and selling things. Trying to refill the coffers. And not just his own pockets, but the pension plans, municipal development funds, school [...] WINDSOR — Let’s start with 13th century Florence. Because we can… Where would art be without the Medicis? These bankers were great patrons of the arts. They produced three Popes (although let’s not talk about banking and religion.) There are many great works that simply would not exist without the patronage of great bankers. Lawyers largely [...] CHELSEA — It’s cold and rainy in London again. It feels like a typical day. Which is perhaps what is leading to the contemplative mood of the papers this morning. Lucy Kellaway has written a column this morning about the recent children’s report and how it has changed the way she looks at her life. It’s uncomfortable reading. Elsewhere [...] LONDON — What I really like about the research that Able and How are publishing tomorrow morning is that it defies logic… but reinforces our sense of the world. We have found that a lot of people have no idea about the future of their jobs. They don’t have communication about the future of the company, [...] |
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