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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 04/02/2025

Well-established companies should ask themselves a simple question: “Who in the company is in the business of looking after its future?”’ My FT Big Read on how giants from Boeing to Kodak to GE lost their way on.ft.com/4jLtLS8 #management #leadership

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Have America’s industrial giants forgotten what they are for?

[FREE TO READ] Critics say fragmented ownership, weak culture and a fixation on financial results have harmed innovation

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Michael Skapinker @skapinker.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I used to be one of the people selecting the letters to the editor for FT publication. You live for moments like this.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 10/01/2025

FT readers will pretty much never have seen Andy Slade's name in print. But he was the kind of person who gets a newspaper out with minimal errors and maximum attention to the needs of the readers. We're all very sad at his death. But this is a beautiful obituary: www.ft.com/content/76e8...

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Andrew Slade, FT journalist, 1963-2025

Talented but unassuming news editor who was universally admired in the FT newsroom

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Michael Skapinker @skapinker.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Intelligent, nuanced email from @stephenkb.bsky.social today on dangers in Labour's schools bill. There's plenty wrong with England's schools, especially on special needs, but the bill risks reversing the greatest national achievements of previous decades - the improvement in state education.

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Michael Skapinker @skapinker.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Thanks to the @financialtimes.com Claer Barrett for letting us know that the latest model of Monopoly is card-only.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 03/12/2024

This CD player was my birthday present in 1997 along with the incomparable Fresh Hits 1997. I found it recently and COULD NOT BELIEVE how rich the sound was, after years of streaming Spotify on my phone. My column today is about this phenomenon, which I’m calling “qualitynesia” on.ft.com/3ZlwHf5

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Michael Skapinker @skapinker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Here's @pilitaclark.bsky.social writing about how "around" had replaced "about" as the word used when talking about something. While I'm an ever bigger pedant than Pilita, I hadn't noticed this one. It will now irritate me every time. www.ft.com/content/b589...

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The battle around ‘around’ and other awful woolly words

The fuzzy meaning space is becoming depressingly overcrowded

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Michael Skapinker @skapinker.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

My old friend Peter Grimsdale arguing in the @financialtimes.com that Jaguar's ad is a return to traditional values.

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Michael Skapinker @skapinker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

People facing retirement often want whatever they do next to have a wider purpose or worry that their career didn't have one. So thanks to Victoria Tomlinson of Next-Up for alerting me to this study concluding that a sense of purpose reduces dementia risk. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....

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Sense of purpose in life is associated with lower risk of incident dementia: A meta-analysis

A sense of purpose in life has been associated with healthier cognitive outcomes across adulthood, including risk of dementia. The robustness and replicability of this association, however, has yet to...

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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Our overdiagnosis crisis Amid a sharp rise in mental health conditions, critics say we have started to pathologise “ordinary human unhappiness”. By Rachel Kelly www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

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Our overdiagnosis crisis

Amid a sharp rise in mental health conditions, critics say we have started to pathologise “ordinary human unhappiness”.

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Michael Skapinker @skapinker.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

My old deputy, and then editor, Isabel Berwick and I talk about what we wish we'd known when we started out. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

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What I wish I’d known when I started my career

Podcast Episode · Working It · 12/11/2024 · 21m

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Michael Skapinker @skapinker.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Delighted to see @pilitaclark.bsky.social advocating "if you cough, you're off". If you're ill, go home and don't infect everyone else. As a manager, I was sending snifflers home long before Covid, as my deputies @martinbrice.bsky.social and Hugo Greenhalgh will recall. www.ft.com/content/d79c...

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If you cough, you’re off

Why is it so hard to follow this first rule of flu season office etiquette

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Michael Skapinker @skapinker.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Pleased to have caught the last performance of "Skeleton Crew" at the Donmar Warehouse about the closure of a Detroit car plant. Brilliant portrayal of the middle manager's invariable dilemma: having to defend company line against the rage of your team, who you try to protect against all the odds.

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Michael Skapinker @skapinker.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Special deal for new Starbucks CEO: he doesn't have to come into the regular office. Baristas will presumably still have to show up for work. www.ft.com/content/ef7a...

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Michael Skapinker @skapinker.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

In today's FT, @lynneguist.bsky.social and @byagoda.bsky.social, admittedly in a report from New York. Is there an increase in UK use of "wait lists" and "wait times" over "waiting"?

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Michael Skapinker @skapinker.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Brilliant column by the FT's John Thornhill on the Post Office scandal, especially this conclusion. www.ft.com/content/3cbb...

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Michael Skapinker @skapinker.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

I spoke to @financialtimes.com's Isabel Berwick about why we need to stop talking about retirement. It no longer describes what people like me are doing. open.spotify.com/episode/7ae7...

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