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Andrew Hill
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Journalist, speaker, writer
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What if “the book could respond to the reader, and, using AI, generate a unique bespoke text that speaks directly to their concerns”? - my interview with FT/Schroders award-winner Stephen Witt on Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the future of books as.ft.com/r/7aa36214-e...
#BBYA25
FT award-winning author Stephen Witt on the future of reading: ‘Books could respond’
[FREE TO READ] Writer of ‘The Thinking Machine’ about Nvidia’s rise believes in vast potential of AI
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is “totally driven by negative emotion in a way that I have never seen in a CEO before” - my interview with FT/Schroders book award-winner Stephen Witt on the FT Behind the Money podcast #BBYA25 open.spotify.com/episode/2xvq...
Business Book of the Year: Author Stephen Witt on Nvidia’s rise
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December 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Onward and upward for stairlift maker Stannah, as the family heads upstairs and brings in its first non-family CEOs. My interview with 5th- and 6th-generation Jon and Sam Stannah on success, succession and family values as.ft.com/r/792c958b-d...
UK stairlift maker Stannah hands controls to first non-family CEOs
[FREE TO READ] Jon and Sam Stannah step up to board level in shake-up designed to boost governance and accountability
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December 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Onward and upward for stairlift maker Stannah, as the family heads upstairs and brings in its first non-family CEOs. My interview with 5th- and 6th-generation Jon and Sam Stannah on success, succession and family values as.ft.com/r/792c958b-d...
UK stairlift maker Stannah hands controls to first non-family CEOs
[FREE TO READ] Jon and Sam Stannah step up to board level in shake-up designed to boost governance and accountability
as.ft.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Reposted by Andrew Hill
What if “the book could respond to the reader, and, using AI, generate a unique bespoke text that speaks directly to their concerns”? - my interview with FT/Schroders award-winner Stephen Witt on Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the future of books as.ft.com/r/7aa36214-e...
#BBYA25
FT award-winning author Stephen Witt on the future of reading: ‘Books could respond’
[FREE TO READ] Writer of ‘The Thinking Machine’ about Nvidia’s rise believes in vast potential of AI
as.ft.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What if “the book could respond to the reader, and, using AI, generate a unique bespoke text that speaks directly to their concerns”? - my interview with FT/Schroders award-winner Stephen Witt on Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the future of books as.ft.com/r/7aa36214-e...
#BBYA25
FT award-winning author Stephen Witt on the future of reading: ‘Books could respond’
[FREE TO READ] Writer of ‘The Thinking Machine’ about Nvidia’s rise believes in vast potential of AI
as.ft.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Musk’s trillion-dollar payout “floats beyond Neptune, about 17,000 times the distance of a mere moonshot” - my column on why Elon’s out-of-this-world pay targets are as damaging as they are distant as.ft.com/r/3beb41c7-1... via @financialtimes
How executive pay went galactic
[FREE TO READ] Elon Musk’s $1tn incentive plan supercharges a long history of rewards driving up executive pay
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December 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Brilliant piece about the women who made London divorce capital of the world - including a telling reference to a "fur-off" in St Petersburg, where some of them allegedly competed to sport the grandest accessory, by @joshspero.ft.com and Suzi Ring @journosooz.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/255a...
Meet the women who made London the divorce capital of the world
From reluctant recruits in a male-dominated profession to stars who have defined their field
www.ft.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The CEO who carries seven mice in her backpack and why Logitech will provide “the eyes, the ears and the hands of AI”. My FT interview with Hanneke Faber, former high-diver who plunged into tech on.ft.com/48vywuv
Logitech CEO: ‘The mouse built this house’
[FREE TO READ] Hanneke Faber says Swiss company known for everyday tech will become the ‘eyes, ears and hands’ of AI
on.ft.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Pilita Clark is rightly irritated and unnerved by the ubiquity of AI “helpers” - but I worry what will happen when they no longer bother declaring themselves on.ft.com/489Do9B @pilitaclark.bsky.social
Leave me alone, AI
[FREE TO READ] If I wanted your tedious advice on how to do the simplest thing online, I would have asked for it
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November 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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“This whole thing is just a no: a book about business [and] privileged white guys making lots of money” - many publishers rejected the novel Drayton and Mackenzie. I talked to author Alexander Starritt about why fiction only sees the bad in business on.ft.com/3KpKjSX #BBYA25
Who says management consultants can’t be literary heroes?
[FREE TO READ] Dickens and Gaskell engaged with the everyday realities of industrial capitalism. Now, workplace dramas rarely make it on to the page — but for novelist Alexander Starritt, business is ...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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NEW: The best business books of 2025, our annual interview with @andrewtghill.ft.com, organizer of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award:
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The Best Business Books of 2025: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
It’s been another big year for technology and AI, but books on geopolitics and global political rivalries are front and centre on the shortlist of the 2025 Financial Times Business Book of the Year…
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November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“This whole thing is just a no: a book about business [and] privileged white guys making lots of money” - many publishers rejected the novel Drayton and Mackenzie. I talked to author Alexander Starritt about why fiction only sees the bad in business on.ft.com/3KpKjSX #BBYA25
Who says management consultants can’t be literary heroes?
[FREE TO READ] Dickens and Gaskell engaged with the everyday realities of industrial capitalism. Now, workplace dramas rarely make it on to the page — but for novelist Alexander Starritt, business is ...
on.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
My must-read business books of 2025 on.ft.com/48gpt1s #FTBizBooks #BusinessBooks
Best books of 2025: Business
[FREE TO READ] Andrew Hill selects his must-read titles
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November 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A fascinating, nuanced and troubling @financialtimes.com Magazine cover story on the terrible threat and reality of parricide, from @emmavj.bsky.social
on.ft.com/4nWiG1G A parent’s fear: the mother in hiding from her son

He was golden-haired, a “really happy” baby. “He was gorgeous. I absolutely doted on him, I loved being a mum.”
A parent’s fear: the mother in hiding from her son
[FREE TO READ] What happens when the person you gave life to, wants to take yours
on.ft.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
‘No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.’
Fabulous FT investigation into MBS’s Ozymandian fantasy

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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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November 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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’
as.ft.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
“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
on.ft.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
‘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
on.ft.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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
on.ft.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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
on.ft.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Gorgeous, on Sarah Walker’s Radio 3 show just now open.spotify.com/track/6n1X3Q...
August 31, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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
on.ft.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
“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
on.ft.com
August 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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
on.ft.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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
on.ft.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM