by Jonathan Gifford | Feb 25, 2010 | Leadership issues
Toyota’s leadership team are still struggling with one of the most intriguing – and dangerous – challenges to face a major global corporation in recent years. How is the leadership team doing? I think that ‘better’ must be the answer. Is it enough? Hard to say. Akio...
by Jonathan Gifford | Feb 13, 2010 | Culture
If you were called upon to describe one visual image that defines the city of London – one skyline – I would guess that it would be the Palace of Westminster. The clock tower of Big Ben; the spires of the ‘Mother of all Parliaments’; the House of Commons and the House...
by Jonathan Gifford | Feb 7, 2010 | Culture
The great eighteenth century warrior-king, Frederick the Great of Prussia, was fighting the Austrians at Kolin, near Prague, in 1757 during the drawn-out conflict between the major European powers that we call The Seven Years War. The conflict had erupted in North...
by Jonathan Gifford | Feb 4, 2010 | Leadership issues
Jack Welch, (CEO of America’s General Electric Company from 1981-2001) came up with the most succinct and compelling description of crisis management that I have seen. On Welch’s watch it was alleged that workers at a GEC plant producing military components for...
