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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
“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
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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
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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“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
“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
Best books of 2025: Business
[FREE TO READ] Andrew Hill selects his must-read titles
on.ft.com
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.”
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
A fascinating, nuanced and troubling @financialtimes.com Magazine cover story on the terrible threat and reality of parricide, from @emmavj.bsky.social
‘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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Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.’
Fabulous FT investigation into MBS’s Ozymandian fantasy
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
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
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
‘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
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.’
Fabulous FT investigation into MBS’s Ozymandian fantasy
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
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
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...
“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
“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
‘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
‘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
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
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October 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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
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
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
Gorgeous, on Sarah Walker’s Radio 3 show just now open.spotify.com/track/6n1X3Q...
August 31, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Gorgeous, on Sarah Walker’s Radio 3 show just now open.spotify.com/track/6n1X3Q...
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
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
“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
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
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August 25, 2025 at 6:59 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
on.ft.com/4p6aiyu #AI #management
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
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
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
on.ft.com/41daGAV #BBYA25 #BusinessBooks
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
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
"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
on.ft.com
July 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"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
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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 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?
on.ft.com
July 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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 on.ft.com/405Rsg2
Reposted by Andrew Hill
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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.
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.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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.
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.
"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
www.ft.com
June 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
"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
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
on.ft.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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
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
on.ft.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:25 AM
My summer business book reading list on.ft.com/3TpzEIP #BusinessBooks
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
on.ft.com
June 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Charles Handy’s “final breaths of wisdom” - my FT review of the late management thinker’s last book on.ft.com/4l9TJir
“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?
on.ft.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“With the help of generative AI, ‘thought leadership’ is now a roaring, malodorous, torrent” - my latest column on.ft.com/4dONcHq
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
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. 🧵
May 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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
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
on.ft.com
May 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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