Articles for February 2009However good the pay, it doesn't buy resultsSun, 22nd Feb 2009IT'S A LAW of management that more is less - and if it's complicated it's wrong. On both these scores, nothing embodies management's current ruinous disarray better than the knots companies are getting themselves into over pay. Inside every chief exec, there's a Soviet plannerSun, 15th Feb 2009THE MOST REMARKABLE thing on show at last week's banking hearings was the capitalists' naivety about capitalism - a gullibility that has endangered both of the economy's major institutions, markets and companies. We can't afford to give bosses a blank chequeSun, 8th Feb 2009SOMETHING approaching panic is stirring the rarefied atmosphere of Planet CEO. Last week, President Obama did the unthinkable, in effect imposing a maximum wage ($500,000) on top executives of firms that receive "extraordinary help" from the US government |
