04 Jan 2002
| by Jeremy Bullmore
TO PARTY OR NOT TO PARTY? I want to organise a staff New Year's party (a company tradition) for the research division I run in a large stationery firm.
02 Jan 2002
| by Jeremy Bullmore
OUR BOSS COMMANDEERS OUR IDEAS. One of my bosses keeps hijacking our ideas. If the team is discussing ideas for a client's ad campaign, he will often keep quiet, but then parade our ideas as his own when we meet with the more senior account directors.
01 Jan 2002
| by Jeremy Bullmore
MY BOARD WANTS ME TO MAKE FALSE EXCUSES. Q: I'm the director of corporate communications for an international company. Our finals are due, and because of a series of misjudged acquisitions, they're not exactly good news.
01 Jan 2002
'A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one'. Henry Ford said it
01 Jan 2002
| by MATTHEW GWYTHER
HOW TO REINVENT YOURSELF: Is now the time to morph your career? - The doctor who quit the NHS for the City, the banker-turned-novelist, the biscuit factory manager who became a film-maker, the consultancy high-flier who walked out on a six-figure director
01 Jan 2002
THE ANDREW DAVIDSON INTERVIEW: SIR HOWARD DAVIES - It's an impressive CV: special adviser to Chancellor Lawson, controller of the Audit Commission, head of the CBI, deputy governor at the Bank of England and founding boss of the FSA. His City watchdog is
01 Jan 2002
| by ROSE PRINCE
COMING UP FAST: CATERING TO THE TOP CHEF'S EVERY WHIM - How do you
deal with the most awkward customers? Get close to them, says football
hooligan-turned-entrepreneur Gregg Wallace. Rose Prince reports - Fruit and veg has been very good for Gregg Wallace,
01 Jan 2002
| by STEPHEN BAYLEY, an author and design consultant
MOTOR MOUTH: A ghost on wheels - When I first saw the Morris Mini-Minor I was holding my father's hand. Even as a seven-year-old, I was astonished. We'd driven to the showroom in a Humber Super Snipe, a huge car of black paint and smelly brown leather.
01 Jan 2002
| by MIRANDA KENNETT, managing coach at The Coaching House
(www.coachinghouse.com) and a founding partner of The Management Due
Diligence Co
FIRST CLASS COACH - I've just been appointed head of department in a sector new to me. There's an important strategy presentation in the next few weeks and I'm torn as to whether to do it myself or let my two direct reports handle it. I want to demonstrat
01 Jan 2002
| by By RUFUS OLINS editor-in-chief, MATTHEW GWYTHER editor
EDITORIAL: UNCERTAINTY BRINGS ITS OPPORTUNITIES - Did you make any resolutions amid the alcoholic haze on New Year's Eve this year? (And could you even remember them in the morning?) If so, how many of them were work-related? It would be fascinating to kn