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Keeping it in the family

March 13, 2012

“From clogs to clogs in three generations” runs the wise old saying about family businesses. I don’t think anyone is suggesting that the Murdoch dynasty is about to find itself out on 
its uppers – or clogs. But the recent dramas at 
News International are a reminder that family businesses, as Nigel Nicholson of London Business School has pointed out, can experience wildly varying outcomes. (more…)

Slower but sure

January 11, 2012

No new year’s resolutions for me again this year. How can you improve the unimprovable? I’m joking of course, but there is a more serious point here. As we all know, those seemingly earnest commitments we make in the first week of January do tend to unravel by… well, by the third week of January. (more…)