by Jonathan Gifford | Aug 8, 2022 | Business & Leadership, news
Until I read yesterday’s Sunday Times article covering Rishi Sunak’s bid to become leader of the Conservative Party, I was vaguely aware that his wife, Akshata Murty was the daughter of a successful and wealthy Indian businessman; I had no idea that her...
by Jonathan Gifford | May 9, 2020 | Culture
This article was first published on History News Network in 2012. I’ve changed the title to reflect our current realities but I haven’t updated the article itself – which is now a bit of a museum piece! I must confess that I think that...
by Jonathan Gifford | Mar 29, 2015 | Leaders from History
Below is a short biography of Lee Kuan Yew taken from my book History Lessons, which looks at the great leaders from history and explores what aspects of their leadership could be considered to have made them ‘great’. I came to the conclusion that the...
by Jonathan Gifford | Feb 26, 2015 | Business & Leadership
Is your organisation stuck in the industrial era? Find out now by taking our quick, twenty-question How Steam Are You? survey for an instant analysis. The results that you will be given online on completing the survey are slightly light-hearted, but the issue...
by Jonathan Gifford | Dec 12, 2014 | Business & Leadership
I have been observing managers, and was for a long time managed by managers, for more years than I care to recall. I am using the term ‘managers’ advisedly, because, believe me, there is no sense in which these managers were, or are, ‘leaders’. History as...
