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Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism

18th January 2017 by Karan Chadda Leave a Comment

Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism

Think of activist investors and you think of boardroom battles, tough words in the media and fights over stockpiles of cash. In Dear Chairman, Jeff Gramm provides historical context, charting the rise of shareholder activism.

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MESSY: How to be creative and resilient in a tidy-minded world

3rd January 2017 by Rishi Dastidar Leave a Comment

MESSY: How to be creative and resilient in a tidy-minded world

We’re led to believe that there’s little that’s worse than mess – how unsightly it is, a signal of someone’s laziness, their lack of application. Not for nothing is cleanliness next to godliness. But what if we’ve got this the wrong way round?

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The Ladybird Book of the Meeting

6th December 2016 by Karan Chadda Leave a Comment

The Ladybird Book of the Meeting

It’s nice to pick up a book that aims squarely at the nonsense of the workplace with no pretensions of providing wry analysis or insight.

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Adventure is closer than you realise

29th September 2016 by Stephen Waddington Leave a Comment

Adventure is closer than you realise

Working 9 to 5, or thereabouts, leaves 16 hours free. It’s the perfect amount of time for a microadventure.

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Writing on the Wall: Social Media, the first 2,000 years

12th September 2016 by Karan Chadda Leave a Comment

Writing on the Wall: Social Media, the first 2,000 years

Through his love of history and technology, The Economist’s Tom Standage provides us a valuable perspective not just on social media, but how humans communicate.

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