Management Today articles from September 2006

Management Today archives from September 2006

Editorial: Fit, fabulous and forty.(Editorial)
September 1, 2006... This month we have a birthday to celebrate, so please excuse the party shirt. While the editor (45) may be experiencing a mild mid-life crisis, manifesting itself in an unhealthy devotion to Italian clothing brands, MT finds itself in rude...

Contributors.(periodicals )
September 1, 2006... HARRY BORDEN MT's portrait photographer took the pictures of Sir John Harvey-Jones for this month's issue. 'I was expecting him to be an irascible old buffer,' says Borden, 'but he was charm personified.' Borden, whose first solo...

MT 40: The encouragement business.
September 1, 2006... MT was the offspring of a fledgling company. Although Haymarket had started in the late 1950s, by the mid-60s we were still a tiny operation when we heard the British Institute of Management (BIM) was looking for a publisher to produce its...

Brain Food: MT 40 - Ten ways to ... mark an anniversary.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... - Plan early - Research your company - Keep the event on-brand - Make the party special - Fix a date well ahead - Don't miss anyone off the invite list - Spend lavishly on decent food and booze - Include staff partners and family...

Brainfood: It'll never fly - British business.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... It started well but later lost its way. According to German sociologist Max Weber, it was Henry VIII's act of severing our ties with Rome that gave British business an early boost. Weber observed the correlation between the Reformation and...

Brainfood: How does he manage?(Lorenzo Marioni of New Piccadilly Cafe)(Interview)
September 1, 2006... Classic cafe owner - Lorenzo Marioni, New Piccadilly Cafe, Soho When did you become a manager? I've been working at the cafe since my father opened it in 1951, and I took over in 1974. But it has only got about a year left. These...

Brainfood: Earning Curve - 1966 and all that.(Table)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... The Pill, sales that year dollars 90m The Beatles, Revolver LP, sales in first two weeks dollars 1m Diana Rigg, The Avengers, per week pounds 150 England footballer, per World Cup match pounds 60 British man, average weekly wage pounds...

Brainfood: Robert Heller - If I had to start again ..
September 1, 2006... I should have gone into the City and simply sat and waited. But then I wouldn't be here talking about the history of management journalism. But I knew I wanted to write. I am a natural cineaste, so it may have made sense to write for...

Brainfood: Slogan Doctor - I'm backing Britain.(Daily Mail promotes export of British goods)
September 1, 2006... In the winter of 1967, having just devalued sterling, Harold Wilson's Labour government was desperate to exploit the renewed competitiveness of British goods by promoting exports. Among those inspired by the idea were a group of five...

Brainfood: Stat of the month - Great Britain?(gross domestic product increases )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... The UK's gross domestic product (GDP) has grown two and a half times over 40 years, and 1.9% since 2004 - a respectable if not stunning performance. The CIA's World Factbook describes the UK as 'still one of Europe's strongest economies',...

MT 40: Scrapbook 1960s.
September 1, 2006... Harold Wilson's white-hot hi-tech revolution was under way, the Beatles had released Rubber Soul and England was about to win the World Cup when MT set out its stall... APRIL 66 - Management Today is born The cover story on the first...

MT 40: Scrapbook 1970s.
September 1, 2006... Petrol queues, striking dustmen, the advent of Punk... MT looked hard for the good news, celebrating rising stars as it mourned exec job-cuts. OCTOBER 70 - Tracking Bland MT noted 'the phenomenally rapid' promotion of a fresh-faced...

MT 40: Scrapbook 1980s.
September 1, 2006... With recession, the miners' strike and urban riots, MT wondered where Thatcher was leading UK business, but soon sensed good times for Filofax-toting managers. APRIL 80 - Thatcher's bitter harvest MT's editorial recalled the grim mood...

MT 40: Scrapbook 1990s.
September 1, 2006... As the Iron Curtain rusted away, MT watched New Labour shape up for office. Woman-power was evident in the workplace, and youth had its way as the internet took hold... JANUARY 90 - Another brick in the Wall? Just two months after the...

MT 40: Scrapbook 2000.(periodical publishing)
September 1, 2006... A redesigned MT kept a bright eye out for post-millennial entrepreneurial zeal but found much to castigate in fat-cattery and corporate collapse. We even went to jail... MARCH 00 - Smoothie-talking entrepreneurs Three youthful faces...

Chartered Management Institute: In my opinion.(Mary Chapman )
September 1, 2006... Chartered Management Institute CEO Mary Chapman argues that, 40 years on, the challenge to increase management professionalism remains a priority. In 1966, prime minister Harold Wilson spoke at a conference organised by the Institute (then...

You read it here first.(periodicals )
September 1, 2006... The personalities and the trends, the highs and the lows, the fads and the failures. For four decades now, MT has been observing and animating the art and craft of management. Stefan Stern rummages through the archives. This magazine has...

The colossal cares of Unilever revisited.(Company overview)
September 1, 2006... MT first ran its slide-rule over this complex Anglo-Dutch blue-chip in 1967, diagnosing a problem with growth. Nearly 40 years on, Simon Caulkin finds it squaring up to the same issues. This time it's urgent. It would be hard to find a...

The MT 40 Interview: Sir John Harvey-Jones.
September 1, 2006... A controlling father who threw his son in the deep end produced one of the great British managers, sartorially challenged and with an unruly barnet. More famous as telly Troubleshooter than ICI chairman, he is not without critics but faces his...

Remember ... the way we were?(changes in lifestyle, clothing etc)
September 1, 2006... From a job-for-life corporate man to City woman with work/life balance issues, via 'Greed is good', Rhymer Rigby looks at the spirit of the last four decades. MT WOMAN, 2006: REBECCA DUGGAN Rebecca works in the City. Having started out...

The MT 40 Gallery.
September 1, 2006... Alongside the journalism, great imagery has always been at the heart of MT. Our list of photographers and illustrators is lengthy and distinguished. The extraordinary range of their work is sampled in these pages. A wider selection of...

MT 40: Woman ascending.(women clothing )
September 1, 2006... How did the simpering secretary of the '60s workplace shape up into the confident executive of today? EMMA DE VITA traces her journey. Flicking through the early issues of MT, you'd be forgiven for thinking that most women at work in the...

The Mighty Handful.(Microprocessors, mobile phone, Internet, E-MAIL)
September 1, 2006... Five of the most influential electronic technologies of the past 40 years - advances that have transformed our business world - are counted off by Andrew Saunders. 1. THE MICROPROCESSOR Microprocessors are the unsung silicon workhorses...

2020 Vision: Four high-tech trends - positive and negative - to watch over the next 10 years.
September 1, 2006... 1. MAGNETO-RESISTIVE MEMORY (MRam) This is a bit techie but stay with us. Current technology allows computer memory to be either fast (able to get data in and out of storage very quickly, as with your PC's Random Access Memory, or Ram) or...

MT 40: Villains & Heroes.(executives)(Thumbnail biography)
September 1, 2006... Like any great human endeavour, business has its share of the good, the bad and the ugly to brighten or darken the firmament. Matthew Gwyther and Andrew Saunders separate sinners from saints. ROGUES GALLERY... JOHN DELOREAN ...

The MT Essays 40th Anniversary: Corporate Governance - An end to guesswork.
September 1, 2006... Companies now have to contend with with much tighter procedural rules, but things are stabilising. Making efforts to achieve proper compliance will bring rich rewards. The phrase 'corporate governance' and stories around it regularly...

The MT Essays 40th Anniversary: Leadership - Managing paradox.
September 1, 2006... Vital though they are, strategic skills will not be enough for the successful leaders of the future. Tolerance, pragmatism and 'international literacy' must be in the mix too. The best leaders know themselves well. They use knowledge of...

The MT Essays 40th Anniversary: The Digital Economy - Ever closer encounters.(internet has a great impact on economy)
September 1, 2006... Companies will need much greater precision in the way they interact with customers over the internet. Fast and enticing means of delivery win you competitive advantage. Ten years ago, if you'd asked me what would drive the future of the...

The MT Essays 40th Anniversary: Innovation - Bouncing ideas around.
September 1, 2006... As well as creating brilliant new products and services, firms will need to reinvent themselves too. And the best insights will come via partnerships and ad hoc alliances. If it's a basic fact of business life that change doesn't stop,...

The MT Essays 40th Anniversary: Talent Management - Destination workplace.
September 1, 2006... Giving your people the best tools for the job boosts their efficiency and kick-starts an urge to innovate. It takes a dynamic HR section to create such a people-ready business. People are business's most important asset. Most leaders in...

The MT Essays 40th Anniversary: Women in business - The long haul to parity.
September 1, 2006... Great progress has been made since the '60s in the quest for female equality in the workplace, but there's still that pay gap. Tactics for accelerating change are overdue. If you believe in yourself, nothing is impossible. So said Michelle...

The MT Essays 40th Anniversary: Youth and the Workplace - Close that culture gap.
September 1, 2006... Bosses lament the standard of today's raw recruits, while university leavers dislike what business has to offer. How should firms tackle the mutual misunderstanding? What is it with young people? Employers despair at the apparent dearth of...

The MT Essays 40th Anniversary: Convergence - A new way of working.
September 1, 2006... In the new communications environment, where telephony, e-mail and the internet interact seamlessly, location has no bearing on your staff's ability to do their job. Convergence means many things to many people. At home, our high-speed...

John Weak's Diary: Weak at the top.(marketing director of Smokehouse PLC)
September 1, 2006... John Weak came to the notice of wary MT readers in April 1999 - and set the cause of decent behaviour in the workplace back 40 years with his dissing of female colleagues, lunchtime boozing and office conniving. Our cave manager gave a...