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Corporate governance: Keep 'em keen

Career progression should be clearly defined if you want to find tomorrow’s leaders from today’s recruits

The value mission: Are companies performing?

Looking at the FTSE, it appears not. Yet a huge increase in the compliance burden means directors are running like mad just to stand still.

The pioneering finance director

The recent dramatic demise of Marconi has tended to overshadow the fact that, in terms of its style of financial management, it was really quite a pioneering company in its heyday. The General Electric Company, as it used to be known, was a ramshackle business when Arnold Weinstock became managing director in 1963, taking up the role on the condition that he was allowed to appoint Kenneth Bond as his finance director.

Editor's letter: In praise of the time-servers

Gordon Brown says there are two types of Chancellor: those who were successful and those who didn't get out in time. As the economy wobbles, we see why he's so desperate to be prime minister.
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