Tag: FT.com
A spotter’s guide to bad angels
Here is a nice list of business angle types: Shark angels Crazy, rich uncles Litigious angels Superior angels Megalomaniac angels Chief executive angels Meddling angels Has-been angels Dumb angels For a list of the definitions of these follow this link: FT.com / Entrepreneurship – A spotter’s guide to bad angels.
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Relax and accept World Cup fever
Do you remember all that fuss about employers losing productivity during the football World Cup? See my letter in the FT. It all seems so long ago. So how long will it be before we see the same conversation but centred around the Olympics? I think it will start about a year from now, get…
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The new modesty: ditch the bag
I suggested a while ago that the number of visible carrier bags was an indicator of retail sales. Well, perhaps there are exceptions to this rule. So here we are, possibly emerging from the recession, and shoppers are getting out and about. Shock, and horror, some people are using budget retail bags to conceal their premium-priced…
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Green shoots at GE
Green shoots of recovery do not need to be two-hundred year old oak trees. GE sees first ‘glimmers of hope’ in economy General Electric has started to see the first “glimmers of hope” in the world economy, according to a senior executive at the US conglomerate. Nani Beccalli, who as chief executive of GE International…
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Discount-driven blip
From FT.com today: According to the British Retail Consortium survey, retail sales rose by just 0.1 per cent year-on-year, suggesting that the pick-up in demand seen in January was a “discount-driven blip”, according to Stephen Robertson, director general. As I said in December, the underlying profits are the key issue.
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