Articles for July 2007

There's no escape from the corporate Catch-22
Sun, 29th Jul 2007
Joseph Heller's brilliant, excoriating 1961 novel, set on a fictional US airbase in the Second World War, was always about capitalism as much as war. But to read it again is to be struck by how much nature has come to resemble art.

Want to be productive? Grow your own ideas
Sun, 22nd Jul 2007
Britain's supposedly flexible economy consistently lags those we scorn, like France and Germany

How to coin it by being a real bore
Sun, 15th Jul 2007
Philip Kogan's independent publishing house has survived for 40 years in a business ruled by the global corporates.

Opinion: When an honest mistake is not worth the risk
Sun, 15th Jul 2007
Reputation has become a new source of anxiety where organisational identity and economic survival are at stake. And if everything may impact on organisational reputation, then reputational risk management demands the risk management of everything.

It takes more than Mr Targets to get results
Sun, 8th Jul 2007
'Deliverology' is the horrible name of the techniques devised to make New Labour's public-service reforms stick. It has proved just as horrible in practice.