01 Dec 2001
| by RUFUS OLINS, editor-in-chief, MATTHEW GWYTHER, editor
EDITORIAL: Another year of living dangerously - December. The end of a year that began quite promisingly and concluded with most people eager to see the back of it. Who would have thought 12 months ago, with world economies growing at a respectable rate a
01 Dec 2001
| by MARK ABRAHAMS
IN MY OPINION: Institute of Management companion Mark Abrahams, CEO
of Fenner, urges manufacturers to maintain their creativity in the face
of recession - Life is tough for manufacturers. Increasing energy costs and competition from countries with low lab
01 Dec 2001
| by EVAN DAVIS, economics editor, BBC
CUTTING ROOM: Pity the poor dancers; what the wind-up of Railtrack
really means; a strange summary of America's achievements; Finland's
finesse ... Evan Davis at large - How glamorous the life of a broadcast journalist can be. I've just been talking at a
01 Dec 2001
BRAIN FOOD: Unlikely managers - Christmas tree grower - The Tree
Barn, Greenfield Farm, Oxfordshire - Name: Andrew Ingram
01 Dec 2001
| by ED DOLMAN, chief executive, Christie's auctioneers worldwide
BRAIN FOOD: Room service - Where Ed Dolman stays - For business The Lancaster Hotel is just off the Champs Elysees in Paris, near Christie's new premises. Originally a town house, it was converted in the 1920s by the owner and his housekeeper, the daughte
01 Dec 2001
| by KHALID AZIZ is chairman of spoken communications specialist the
Aziz Corporation, www.azizcorp.com
BRAIN FOOD: Speaking out Don Cruickshank - Chairman, London Stock
Exchange - Whether it is due to the five years he spent running Virgin for Richard Branson or his recent exposure to the dull denizens of the civil service, Don Cruickshank is a rambler and
01 Dec 2001
| by PATIENCE WHEATCROFT, business and City editor of The Times
THE HUMAN FACTOR: John Robinson clearly failed to understand the
machinations of either Stephen Byers and his team or Gordon Brown and
his Treasury bovver boys - When it comes to doing business with governments, be wary; be very wary. This is the lesson t
01 Dec 2001
| by NICK DENTON, founder and chairman, Moreover Technologies;
e-mail: nick@moreover.com
E-MAIL FROM THE VALLEY: Innovation depends on brilliant but often
flaky individuals, who need to be stroked but kept well away from wider
responsibility - The Peter principle has always bemused me. Employees will advance to their highest level of competen
01 Dec 2001
TECHKNOW: Tech talk - Upgrade fatigue
01 Dec 2001
| by ROBERT PESTON, editorial director, Quest (www.csquest.com)
E-mail: rpeston@csquest.com.
INSIDE OUT: The pendulum has swung so far from the Thatcherite '80s
that Corporate Man feels he can moan in public about too much
competition - In 1994, Gordon Brown had a characteristically elliptical phone conversation with Jack Cunningham, then the Lab