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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 10d

“The worse it is, the better I am” - what Kodak did next and how a ‘blue-collar CEO’ is trying to lead the company along a narrow path back to health. My interview with Jim Continenza #leadership on.ft.com/4hMOFQB

The ‘blue-collar CEO’ trying to fix Kodak

[FREE TO READ] Turnaround specialist Jim Continenza is focused on putting the brand back on the right path

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 6d

From opioids to tainted talc: how Johnson & Johnson lost the trust of consumers - my review of No More Tears, a no-punches-pulled critique of what was once a seemingly unimpeachable brand as.ft.com/r/426aa3e7-c...

From opioids to tainted talc: how Johnson & Johnson lost the trust of consumers

[FREE TO READ] A former New York Times reporter accuses the US company of corporate gaslighting on an epic scale in his book ‘No More Tears’

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 10d

“The worse it is, the better I am” - what Kodak did next and how a ‘blue-collar CEO’ is trying to lead the company along a narrow path back to health. My interview with Jim Continenza #leadership on.ft.com/4hMOFQB

The ‘blue-collar CEO’ trying to fix Kodak

[FREE TO READ] Turnaround specialist Jim Continenza is focused on putting the brand back on the right path

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 26d

‘Surely “vibe working” marks peak vibing?’ - after David Solomon, Jamie Dimon and the Bank of England, @emmavj.bsky.social becomes the latest market influencer to warn of an AI bubble on.ft.com/4q7LO8A

Why the vibes are wrong for ‘vibe working’

[FREE TO READ] The phrase used by Microsoft is the latest in a long list of vibe-related phenomena

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · Oct 6

Are business leaders faking it - and does it matter? My latest column on the danger of authenticity traps and origin stories on.ft.com/4pXvas4 #leadership

The make-believe backstories CEOs spin

[FREE TO READ] Colourful details about a boss’s past are rarely unique and may achieve little

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · Sep 24

US-China competition, the impact of sanctions, the foundations of artificial intelligence and the pursuit of prosperity - the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year shortlist is out! #BBYA25 on.ft.com/46CtH1C

FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 — the shortlist

Six finalists analyse important business issues from economic warfare to AI

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · Aug 31

Gorgeous, on Sarah Walker’s Radio 3 show just now open.spotify.com/track/6n1X3Q...

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · Aug 25

Does HR still need humans? And, if not, what does that mean for the rest of the company? My FT Big Read on the good and bad effects of taking the people out of the personnel department on.ft.com/4oLB13g #AI #HR #HRtech

Does HR still need humans?

[FREE TO READ] AI can perform many of the duties of human resources staff, a symbol of how it is changing companies and the nature of work

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · Aug 25

“Love it or hate it, you have to work with it” - my analysis of how DHL is persuading its German post and parcel workers to think of AI “not as a superintelligent master, but as an older colleague”
on.ft.com/4p6aiyu #AI #management

Inside DHL’s AI upgrade: ‘Love it or hate it, you have to work with it’

[FREE TO READ] The German delivery company says artificial intelligence is not taking jobs, but filling gaps in a stretched workforce

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · Aug 18

Thanks for your interest - it’s a strong year and some tough choices had to be made

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · Aug 18

Growth, geopolitics and geniuses - plus the first novel to make the business book award cut in 15 years. The longlist for the FT & Schroders Business Book of the Year is out today. Read all about it:
on.ft.com/41daGAV #BBYA25 #BusinessBooks

FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 — the longlist

[FREE TO READ] Tales of geopolitics and growth — plus a rare novel — are among this year’s contenders

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · Aug 5

You can’t always “stack a team with stars and expect them automatically to make magic together” - The FT View on Meta’s high-spending hunt for AI talent on.ft.com/4m4OsJI

Meta’s high-spending hunt for AI talent

[FREE TO READ] From football to stock analysis, too many stars make it hard to run a team

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · Jul 18

"Not since George HW Bush declared his aversion to broccoli has a US president made such a potentially consequential crop-related communication" - the FT View on how Coca-Cola should respond to Trump's sugar rush on.ft.com/3TNuLJR via @financialtimes

Memo to Coke: keep calm and carry on

[FREE TO READ] Businesses would be well-advised not to jump to Trump’s every whim

Reposted by Andrew Hill

Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · Jul 5

Points to a cultural shift. “It feels like there is a sea change in people’s attitudes,” to reading he says. “It’s not seen as a mainstream pastime.”

How to get children reading again on.ft.com/405Rsg2

How to get children reading again

[FREE TO READ] Fewer young people are reading for pleasure than ever before, with broad economic and social consequences. Can the trend be reversed?

Reposted by Andrew Hill

Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · Jun 26

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · Jun 27

"If tension and inequality cannot be resolved, then expect more skirmishes in the class war, from Bern to Brooklyn" - the FT View on the eternal dilemma of how - and how much - to tax the super-rich www.ft.com/content/04c7... via @financialtimes.com

The eternal dilemma of how to tax the super-rich

It is becoming harder to keep wealthy nomads and ordinary voters happy

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · Jun 25

Are lawyers still the right people to lead lawyers? My column on why, in a fast-changing world, law firms should widen their search for leaders on.ft.com/45EG3Y8

Why law firms should widen their search for leaders

An outsider’s view is likely to foster innovation

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · Jun 24

Putin sitting at the far end of a very very long table

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · Jun 17

My summer business book reading list on.ft.com/3TpzEIP #BusinessBooks

Best summer books of 2025: Business

[FREE TO READ] Andrew Hill selects his best mid-year reads

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · Jun 4

Charles Handy’s “final breaths of wisdom” - my FT review of the late management thinker’s last book on.ft.com/4l9TJir

The View From Ninety by Charles Handy — final words from management’s social philosopher

[FREE TO READ] The late thinker who championed the ‘portfolio life’ offers wit, wisdom and gratitude from a lifetime’s lessons on leadership

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · May 31

'I am not fond of professions of humility or professions of anything else.' (David Copperfield to ‘umble Uriah Heep)

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · May 30

“With the help of generative AI, ‘thought leadership’ is now a roaring, malodorous, torrent” - my latest column on.ft.com/4dONcHq

AI means more thought leadership, whether we want it or not

[FREE TO READ] Large language models can produce endless gobbets of workplace wisdom. What value does this offer business?

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · May 21

Just sitting down to write my summer reading list of business titles, which will, as always, be entirely human-generated, in case @frederick65.ft.com is listening in

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · May 21

The AI-generated summer reading list of non existent titles and how it made it into print. A catalogue of errors and optimistic assumption about who writes, edits and checks copy in a hollowed out media industry

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · May 20

On Sunday, May 18, the print and e-paper editions of the Chicago Sun-Times included a special section titled the Heat Index: Your Guide to the Best of Summer, featuring a summer reading list that our circulation department licensed from a national content partner. 🧵

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · May 17

Thanks, Stephen - finally got to answer a political question with a management theory or two 😉

Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · May 17

Energy, charisma, and mastery of the rules of power - my Financial Times Weekend essay on Trump’s leadership style and its potentially fatal flaws on.ft.com/3SG8MUA

What management theory tells us about Trump’s ‘team of rivals’

[FREE TO READ] Elected for a second time on the promise of corporate-style government, the US president is already recasting his cabinet