Articles for April 2007

Labour's decade, the best and worst of times
Sun, 29th Apr 2007
Anyone looking at New Labour's decade through a macroeconomic lens might conclude it was the best of times. Yet reverse the lens and it looks very different

The council that gave people what they wanted
Sun, 22nd Apr 2007
PERMANENTLY CAST in the long shadow of Whitehall, local government has long been the poor relation of politics - the purveyor of bins, parking tickets and Asbos as opposed to high strategy. But, as yet unreflected in dismal voting totals, things are stirr

What's so hard about keeping accounts simple?
Sun, 15th Apr 2007
BY TURNING ITS 2007 annual report into a 454-page, 1.5kg WMD for the postal system, HSBC may have been hoping to bring down the current reporting regime at a stroke. Yet while there is widespread agreement that present rules leave much to be desired, redu

Food for thought: nice guys really can succeed
Sun, 8th Apr 2007
No amount of generosity has so far succeeded in putting us out of business, says Danny Meyer of his successful New York restaurant group.

If everything can be outsourced, what is left?
Sun, 1st Apr 2007
OUTSOURCE EVERYTHING except your soul,' the excitable guru Tom Peters once exhorted. And companies all over the world have responded with a will.