Articles for October 2005

Short-term gain, long-term pain
Sun, 30th Oct 2005
Collusion between the City and top executives is killing real investment.

Bloated firms not watching their waste: Too many companies squander both time and employee goodwill
Sun, 23rd Oct 2005
JEFF IMMELT, chief executive of GE, laments that 40 per cent of GE consists of unproductive administration and back office work. He wants to halve that in five years.

Doing the right thing - for a change
Sun, 16th Oct 2005
Changemakers who work from the top down are doomed to fail.

To know more is to grow more
Sun, 9th Oct 2005
Growth outside comes from growth inside � that's why GE spends $1bn a year on training.

That's the theory, and it matters... how beliefs and ideas about business actually shape it
Sun, 2nd Oct 2005
Who cares about management theory? Well, you'd better. Even if you've never read or even heard of transaction cost economics or agency theory, these ideas are re-engineering your world as surely as religious fundamentalism, if a lot more insidiously.