01 Dec 2002
| by MATTHEW GWYTHER, Editor
EDITORIAL: Shafts of sunlight in an overcast year - As we come to the end of a tricky 12 months, most British managers will feel they've experienced far more enjoyable years than 2002. Never mind the general economic climate - which maintains a perpetuall
01 Dec 2002
| by BO LERENIUS, group CEO of Associated British Ports Holdings
In my opinion - Chartered Management Institute companion Bo Lerenius, group CEO of Associated British Ports Holdings, believes consistency is what wins the day.
01 Dec 2002
| by EVAN DAVIS, economics editor of the BBC
Cutting room - Germany sheds its factory overalls - but union protocols persist; trains that are the pride of Hull; loaded issue for cash machine operators ... Evan Davis at large.
01 Dec 2002
Contributors - KHALID AZIZ
01 Dec 2002
BRAIN FOOD: Room service - Where Christopher Nourse stays - For business When on tour with English National Ballet, I like to stay in a hotel convenient for the theatre and station, with fast room service, efficient heating and competitive prices - as a p
01 Dec 2002
| by KHALID AZIZ, chairman of spoken communications specialists, The
Aziz Corporation - www.azizcorp.com
BRAIN FOOD: Speaking out - Baroness Thatcher, Prime Minister
1979-90 - Old prime ministers never die, they merely ... what does happen to them in their twilight years? Enoch Powell famously remarked that all political careers end in failure - a dictum tha
01 Dec 2002
| by PATIENCE WHEATCROFT, business and City editor of The Times
The human factor - So endemic has the pay-off concept become that investors are accustomed to paying large sums to executives who leave because they fancy a change.
01 Dec 2002
| by NICK DENTON, in New York, starting his third business;
www.nickdenton.org
State of the union - The focus of blame has moved on from corrupt executives to the Wall Street system, of which the investment bankers are emblematic.
01 Dec 2002
| by ANDREW NEIL, publisher of The Business and The Scotsman
Inside out - Blair seems more at home leading the war on terrorism or planning the invasion of Iraq than he does leading the attack on the new Scargillism.
01 Dec 2002
| by JAMES WOUDHUYSEN, James@Woudhuysen.com
TECHKNOW: Things to come - Bionic Eyes - The fight against visual impairment is being taken into the silicon age.