Stability or change? This seems to be the question on everyone’s mind. And it has come to the fore in the wake of the results of…
Stability or change? This seems to be the question on everyone’s mind. And it has come to the fore in the wake of the results of…
The pension implications of the collapse of Carillion are scandalous – as well as tragic for the people involved. Senior management used cash, debt and asset…
Ständige Konferenz der Kultusminister der Länder in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. German just trips off the tongue doesn’t it. The delightfully named Permanent Conference of the…
Let me start with a story, which has to be a little obscure to protect the innocent. The government has a Voluntary Repatriation Scheme for…
It does make one wonder somewhat what education should be about in the current times. I was recently speaking to some teenagers and asking them…
The collapse of government contractor Carillion will spread havoc. Sympathy for its creditors may not be overwhelming. But the impact on those who depended on…
It is a strange thing, vouchsafed to few of us, to find ourselves vindicated by the National Audit Office of all people. Yet I have…
They were surprised. And I was surprised that they were surprised. I was giving a talk to some senior business people and pointed out that…
In our review of corporate governance last year, we took the view that the UK should move from its primary focus on ‘creating shareholder value’ to a…
The truth is that top-down and bottom-up are already living together. I have just come across a suggestion that our present top-down bureaucratic form of…
Every year, various newspaper and magazines come up with their word of the year. Our Radix word for this last year is Insurgency. If one thing…
The sounds of hoofs is growing, the noise of the emerging antitrust movement is not exactly deafening, but it is at least audible. I cite…