01 Nov 1994
| by Sir Geoffrey Chandler, former director-general of NEDO and
now chairman of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, reflects on
the education of managers.
UK: THE BUSINESS OF BOOK-LEARNING. - Snapshots from Hell, The Making of an MBA by Peter Robinson. Nicholas Brealey; 286pp; £9.99 paperback.
01 Nov 1994
UK: THE INSIDE TRACK ON DIRECTORS' DEALS. - City dealing screens may be bathed in red, the private investor on strike and the FT-SE All Share Index moving south, but in the real world things are different. Those who really know what is happening - the di
01 Nov 1994
UK: MARITIME'S MAGNATE - NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM. - Britannia, as few will need reminding, no longer rules the waves. It does, however, have the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. Yet while Britain's merchant fleet may have stopped growing, the muse
01 Nov 1994
UK: ONE-TIME CLIPPIES TAKE A TICKET TO THE TOP DECK - STAGECOACH. - When Brian Souter took Stagecoach Holdings to the stock market last year his City advisers warned him that it would be the most stressful time of his life. His response was curt: 'I told
01 Nov 1994
UK: LORD OF THE RINGS - LANGUAGE LINE. - There seems to be a curious connection between the noble Lords Young and telephones. In 1990 Lord Young of Graffham, Conservative peer and former secretary of state at the DTI joined Cable and Wireless as executiv
01 Nov 1994
| by Martin Vander Weyer.
UK: THE BANKS FIND THEIR BALANCE. - The banks have abandoned their expansionist policies of the 1980s and are 'constructively shrinking'. Is this a fundamental change or just the next stage in the same old boom-and-bust banking cycle?
01 Nov 1994
| by Keith Woolcock.
UK: THE GREAT UNIVERSAL MYSTERY - GREAT UNIVERSAL STORES. - Great Universal Stores has eluded its public for 60 years. But perhaps its best-kept secret today is whether there will be a GUS without a Wolfson pulling the strings.
01 Nov 1994
UK: THE DAVIDSON INTERVIEW - SIR GEORGE RUSSELL. - From building to broadcasting to banking - the breadth of the 3i chairman's achievements are remarkable. As Andrew Davidson discovers, he knows about football too - or at least, about Newcastle United.
01 Nov 1994
| by Anita van de Vliet.
UK: ORDER FROM CHAOS - CHAOS THEORY. - Chaos theory suggests that management should place more emphasis on adaptability, initiative and entrepreneurial creativity to cope with a future that is inherently unknowable.
01 Nov 1994
| by David Smith.
UK: THE INS AND OUTS OF UPS AND DOWNS - THE BUSINESS CYCLE. - Industry long ago learned to ride the peaks and troughs of the economy but with the 1990-92 recession, the rules appear to have changed.