Articles for March 2006

Trouble with mobile phone users is, they get around
Sun, 26th Mar 2006
Today, a person's first commercial relationship is likely to be with a mobile-phone company, and for a third or more of customers it will last less than a year.

Nothing succeeds like a good succession
Sun, 19th Mar 2006
It is often argued that succession planning is, or should be, one of the most important roles that boards undertake. Yet despite the lip service, most large firms have either unsatisfactory succession plans or none at all, according to US research.

Life and death struggle is price of cheap goods
Sun, 12th Mar 2006
The cruel spiral of poverty that traps producers from poor countries is at last being conquered

Bosses in love with claptrap and blinded by ideologies By: Simon Caulkin
Sun, 12th Mar 2006
Jeff Pfeffer and Robert Sutton's new book is a compelling tour and why it so often turns out to be unwise, untrue and untrustworthy � bollocks, in fact.

Memo to new boss of CBI: What exactly are you for?
Sun, 5th Mar 2006