Drucker Forum Special Report 2019 • 21st November 2019

Drucker Forum Special Report 2019

My third time editing the annual journal on best practices in leadership features articles by leading thinkers such as Marshall Goldsmith, Tony O'Driscoll, Sunnie Giles and Danah Zohar, plus my interviews with employee engagement expert Nita Clarke OBE and leadership development consultant Joy Maitland.

Edge (Institute of Leadership & Management) • 4th November 2019

From 'me' to 'we' (happiness and wellbeing)

Any social movement takes flight from a series of catalysts – those electric moments when like-minds meet and mutual enthusiasm flows. Action for Happiness, which launched in 2011, is no exception. For director and chief executive Dr Mark Williamson, the journey towards his own catalyst began with a bout of debilitating

AAT 20 (journal for accountancy students) • 12th March 2019

What are the right questions to ask prospective clients?

Meeting prospective clients is an integral part of the job for accountants in practice, and it’s only getting more important. You need to be able to determine, through careful questioning, what they know, what they don’t know and what help they need from you. Being in a meeting with a

AAT 20 (journal for accountancy students) • 12th March 2019

What do I need to know about business models?

Business models, if you boil them right down, are all about ‘how’. It’s a small word, but a great leveller – it forces budding tycoons to nail their blue-sky brainwaves down in the real world. As Emma Jones, founder of startup support network Enterprise Nation, says: “A business model is a plan. It’s what makes an idea a viable

Accounting Technician (AAT) • 5th March 2019

8 solutions to the UK's productivity puzzle

A running theme in the media is the UK’s poor productivity. And it’s been a running theme ever since the global financial crisis. By 2017, the UK placed no higher than 17th in business solutions provider Expert Market’s global productivity ranking. UK output per person per hour was valued at just £17.37, compared to chart-topper Luxembourg’s £51.80. So poor productivity

AAT 20 (journal for accountancy students) • 15th January 2019

How does cloud software apply in the real world?

At a general level, the main difference between cloud-based accountancy and its pen-and-paper ancestor is that there’s a significant interactive element to the new systems. Instead of the accountant wrestling a filing cabinet for folders containing the accounts of each client, a cloud platform holds all that material on

AAT 20 (journal for accountancy students) • 15th January 2019

What actually is 'advisory' accounting?

Interested in working in advisory, but not quite sure what it entails? Rest assured that a lot of practising accountants are in the same boat. “There’s an ongoing discussion within our Accelerate group – an accountancy membership network that we’re part of – about that very question: ‘What is advisory?’” says Paul Crichton

Latitudes (White & Case LLP) • 19th December 2018

Token arguments: What should investors know about ICOs?

While many would consider them fairly recent additions to the fintech landscape, digital currencies have been with us in popular form for almost 15 years. In 2006, ex-schoolteacher Ailin Graef stunned wealth watchers by becoming the first-ever real-cash millionaire in the virtual world

Drucker Forum Anniversary Report 2018 • 29th November 2018

Drucker Forum Anniversary Report 2018

In honour of the Drucker Forum's 10th Anniversary, this longer edition of the Special Report explores in greater detail that year's theme: Management - The Human Dimension. My second time as editor of the Report features my interviews with wellbeing expert Julia Hobsbawm and leading business strategist Roger Martin.

Edge (Institute of Leadership & Management) • 5th November 2018

Caught in the middle (challenges facing middle managers)

In what the International Business Times described as a “purge of middle managers”, Rolls-Royce announced plans back in June to slash 4,600 staff over two years, with 3,000 jobs earmarked for the chop in the UK alone. Chief executive Warren East warned that the engineering giant’s Derby

The Treasurer magazine (Association of Corporate Treasurers) • 1st October 2018

Tax the robots (impact of automation on jobs)

Those seeking reassurance about humanity’s place in the workforce would have had a nasty shock if they had tuned in to BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme on 20 August. For in that edition, none other than Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane provided some sobering thoughts on how our species is likely to fare amid

The Treasurer magazine (Association of Corporate Treasurers) • 4th June 2018

Chain of convenience (distributed ledger platforms)

If you think that mutterings around blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) are ubiquitous now, well – you haven’t seen anything yet. Leading analyst Research and Markets tips the blockchain industry for a compound annual growth rate of more than 62% over the

Employee Ownership Association • 27th June 2018

The Ownership Dividend

This report highlights the positive contribution that employee ownership (EO) is already making to individuals, businesses and the economy. But more importantly, it also signals the greater contribution EO could make if it were better understood – not just by policymakers, but by financial institutions, business leaders, professional bodies, business schools and the media.

Edge (Institute of Leadership & Management) • 15th November 2017

The end of the boss? (innovative company structures)

Traditional hierarchies are under threat from flatter organisational structures, greater autonomy, distributed workforces and the rise of the gig economy... there are numerous, compelling reasons why the end of the command-and-control boss is a realistic prospect. In 2001, German beverage maker Mineralbrunnen AG

World Gold Council • 16th October 2017

30 Golden Treasures Rediscovered Over 30 Years

The World Gold Council was founded in 1987. Over the past three decades it has increased the relevance and demand for gold in our rapidly changing world. During the same period, many golden treasures from the past have been rediscovered. This publication celebrates 30 of these remarkable treasures.

Drucker Forum Special Report 2017 • 1st November 2017

Drucker Forum Special Report 2017

An exploration of cutting-edge business, management and leadership approaches that are reshaping the world of work, this publication - which I edited - is the result of a strategic partnership between the Global Peter Drucker Forum and the Institute of Leadership & Management. On pages 10-13, I interview connectional intelligence pioneer Erica Dhawan.

Project (Association for Project Management) • 4th October 2017

Staying the course (post-grad project management courses)

Managing your career so you achieve your goals can be difficult to get right, especially in the early stages, when the urge to express tireless dynamism and make oneself indispensable can be all-consuming. And although nothing can replace the knowledge and experience

Project (Association for Project Management) • 5th July 2017

A new level (building information modelling)

Builders the world over had every reason to feel sheepish with the publication of McKinsey’s Imagining Construction’s Digital Future in June 2016. A clarion call for the industry to embrace digitisation, the research paper set out some alarming facts about the sluggish pace of technological development in the bricks-and-mortar

Project (Association for Project Management) • 5th July 2017

Projecting the future (technology's influence on project management)

As a function and business model, project management is growing at an exponential rate. Objectives are becoming more and more ambitious, forcing solutions to aim higher than ever. Stakeholder involvement on any large project is now a sprawling map of roles and responsibilities, often typified

Project (Association for Project Management) • 5th April 2017

Ready to print? (use of 3D printing in construction)

Could the traditional brickie become a thing of the past? If we take at face value the construction industry's move towards 3D printing, then the answer would appear to be an emphatic 'yes'. Regular readers of Project may have noticed the news story in the Winter 2016 issue mentioning the imminent construction of a 3D-printed