Andrew Hill

Profile: Full name: Andrew Hill Area of interest: Financial, business, corporate Journals/Organisation: Financial Times Email: andrew.hill@ft.com Personal website: Website: http://www.ft.com/management/andrew-hill Blog: http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog Representation: Networks: http://twitter.com/andrewtghill | https://twitter.com/ftbusinessblog

Biography: About: Education: Trinity College, Cambridge: English Career: Joined FT as UK companies reporter, 1988, has been Brussels correspondent, Milan correspondent, Foreign News Editor and Deputy Foreign Editor; FT New York Bureau Chief, 1999/2003, US Business Editor and member of the paper's US editorial board; previously comment & analysis editor, responsible for opionion and features and became assistant editor, August 2003. Lombard editor until end 2010 Current position/role: Financial Times - Associate Editor and management editor also writes/has written for: Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Investigated Enron's collapse as well as other US corporate scandals; had a major role in co-ordinating coverage/writing about US 9/11 attacks Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

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Articles: 2013 The multilingual dividend - The ability to speak two or more languages develops cognitive skills that are ideal for top managers - 18th March Work-life balance is not just for women - Outcry over Sheryl Sandberg book misses the point about ambition and workload - 12th March Executive heads hunted by new tribes - The obvious threats are the crowd and the cloud - 5th March The best strategy must build on the past - Companies that jettison their history risk repeating errors but hobbling their advance - 18th March Bionic managers would be cheap at $6m - Robot leadership will remain science-fiction but executives should use the best technology - 5th February Time to rethink an old business model - Many of the strengths of the traditional partnership can be applied to companies today - 29th January A bad workman blames his suppliers - Admitting your supplier got it wrong is tantamount to admitting you got it wrong - 18th January The quest for the right kind of stupidity - Managers must instil a little stupor into staff for companies to operate - 14th January Rethink required on graduate training - Recruitment and development of the best university students are crucial even in a downturn - 7th January

Articles: 2012 The BBC and bad public sector management - High pay at public bodies stinks – they have taken the worst practices of the private sector - 21st December Year-end reporting: a tyranny of targets - Companies must not let the pressure of quarterly figures lead them into malpractice - 18th December Flexiworkers are heroes, not slackers - The test will be in winter, when the homeworker’s heating switches off - 4th August Perils of declaring your next revolution - The temptation to reveal a prototype early is rising - 1st August Forced ranking is a relic of an HR tool - Disadvantages of appraisal system far outweigh the benefits, writes Andrew Hill - 17th July Corporate culture: Lofty aspirations - It may not be possible to change the behaviour of scandal-hit sectors - 16th July A gold medal for management - Putting on an Olympic Games requires skills that can be also useful for executives - 12th July Time to get past the stigma of offshoring - Knee-jerk reactions to outsourcing illustrate an irrational fear of a useful tool - 10th July The buck stops both at chairs and chiefs - Two elements of Marcus Agius’s statement of resignation as Barclays chairman strike me as strange - 2nd July 2012 The List: Five prizes for changing the world - From spacecraft and cannery to finding the secret of eternal life, awards can be as unusual as the achievements - 30th June Customers can work magic on your staff - Closer engagement improves systems and motivates staff - 26th June Reputation depends on depth of relations - How did the bosses of the England and Wales Cricket Board fall for Allen Stanford? - 19th June Riding the wave to a new type of model - The crisis has given impetus to a corporate form that businesses can use to enshrine social goals alongside profit - 12th June Five steps to career appraisal perfection - The percption of reviews hampers the process - 5th June Autonomy is an odd fit for big business - Takeover challenge is to allow independence - 29th May Recipe for the secret sauce of Facebook - Smooth internal co-ordination is key to unblocking management plumbing] - 22nd May A set-to as old as the Old Testament - BrewDog v Diageo: a PR battle in the old tradition - 15th May Look into the future before it is too late - Crucial to embed an awareness of long-term risks and opportunities - 8th May How to conform to creative deviance - Staff working in direct breach of managerial edicts sometimes achieve great imaginative leaps - 1st May Citizenship matters but adaptability is key - Nationality is still a proxy for cultural fitness, and not just for jobs that set it as a condition - 24th April A bit of selfishness is all to the social good - The caricature of global capitalism puts sandalled do-gooders and corporate suits at opposite ends of the spectrum - 10th April A victim of its own success - Most businesses have a breeze running through them," says one person closely involved with Eastman Kodak for the past quarter-century, “but here, it was a monster hurricane” - 5th April Snapshot of a humbled giant - When, one sunny weekend in July 2007, Eastman Kodak demolished Buildings 9 and 23... - 3rd April We should stop trying to change the world - Given the essentially mundane nature of most jobs, few workers will ever live up to mission statements that urge them to “change the world” - 27th March A family feud is not always a bad thing - Even if you have only half-heard of Gina Rinehart, you will know that she is a force to be reckoned with - 20th March Experience trumps exams for strategists - Italians like to wear their qualifications where everyone can see them - 13th March Big Pharma should learn from Hogwarts - Harry Potter and Viagra have more in common than you may imagine - 7th February Bonuses of contention - The corporate pay culture is the focus of unprecedented fire - 4th February More than two reasons against dual heads - I’ll say one thing for co-chief executives: two scapegoats are better than one - 30th January

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