Employers are realising they can’t do without entry-level, AI-native young people - but if AI is doing the grunt work, how will the juniors ever learn to be seniors? My FT analysis of the changing shape of early careers as.ft.com/r/d7e1b744-2...

“The days of ‘let a thousand flowers bloom’, tech for the sake of tech, are gone” - emmavj.bsky.social and I on how employers pushed staff to tokenmaxx, then changed their minds as.ft.com/r/f0bc9862-b...

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

“VW does not need more decision makers; it needs more sense-makers” - my FT column on why companies everywhere need leaders who can improvise in uncertain times, as the late, great Karl Weick advised as.ft.com/r/1235df54-e...

You may hope that AI spells the end of self-help books but it’ll take more than the most powerful technology ever devised to kill off the genre, concludes @emmavj.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/0b28cf06-3... ChatGPT moved my cheese: AI is unsettling the self-help shelf

When Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe left captivity in Iran she vowed to leave the experience behind her. Politicians have “taken my present and my past, I’m not going to let them take my future” - the author and advocate, speaking at #FTWomen summit

Carol Shanahan is determined to turn Port Vale into “the best-run football club in the EFL”, a place where “humanity is prioritised, whereas I think in a lot of football, it’s not”. My interview with one of football’s few female owners #FTWomen www.ft.com/content/0e9d...

My pick of the best business books of 2026 so far (NB as always, I’ve left the tech books to colleague @johnthornhill.bsky.social ) as.ft.com/r/7f69463d-b... Best summer books of 2026: Business #BusinessBooks

Real Madrid’s Pérez and SpaceX’s Musk are “playing a dangerous game at the place where emotion and cold investment calculation overlap”. My latest FT column as.ft.com/r/f6d3c7f3-6... Real Madrid and the dangers of mixing fans and finance

"This is a thankless moment for any established carmaker to launch a new vehicle" - the FT View on the lessons from the launch of Ferrari's all-electric Luce as.ft.com/r/7b868611-f...

🏆 The #BrackenPrize for Young Authors is back, supported by FT & Standard Chartered. If you're under 35 with an original business book idea, enter by 30 Sept. Winner £15,000; 2 runners-up £2,000 each, plus a masterclass and invitation to the award dinner brackenprize.live.ft.com

"Apart from breathing a sigh of relief that Musk’s plans to inhabit their planet are now a lower priority, what would a Martian beamed down to Wall Street make of the SpaceX IPO?" The FT View as.ft.com/r/f7111f7b-4...

A "profound and often tragic" story of language extinction and preservation - my FT review of @sophiasgaler.bsky.social's beautiful and moving new book as.ft.com/r/0eaf8f40-d...

“If you don’t win, it’s good to know that your money has gone somewhere” - @stephistacey.ft.com and I talked to CEO Andria Vidler about the challenge of reviving the National Lottery as.ft.com/r/2bd9e69b-7...

'If you know Heart of Darkness, I feel like I did a bit of the journey down the river and got to see how our modern financial system works, up close' - Eric "Lean Startup" Ries talks to me about the horrors he discovered while writing his new book Incorruptible as.ft.com/r/6353d07a-d...

New research suggests family company employees are less intelligent than their counterparts elsewhere, held back by a ‘surname ceiling’ - my column why family companies aren’t as great as everyone thinks as.ft.com/r/3037c8ac-4...

Meet the art schools designing Champions League posters for Paris Saint-Germain www.nytimes.com/athletic/725...

'A powerful if one-sided case that wealthy elites have over centuries conspired with their managers to suggest that “there is no alternative” to market fundamentalism.' My FT review of Control Science by Henry Snow as.ft.com/r/e4fa99a2-b...

'As machined “thought leadership” overwhelms our inboxes and social media, AI will start learning from itself, homogenising all prose into grey slop' - the FT View on the dangers, and benefits, of AI-written prose as.ft.com/r/79a4316e-6...

Inviting AI to the boardroom table once “seemed very Star Trekkie” , but now directors are asking ‘should we appoint a bot?’ @aarmstrongsays.bsky.social and I look into the trend as.ft.com/r/1086167f-1...

“Corporate boards have deduced that greater bulk is worth buying. Is it?” The FT View on record-breaking ‘megadeals’ - what should bidders learn from the last record year, 2015, which brought us, among others, M&A dud Kraft Heinz? as.ft.com/r/53c839cd-8...

“By delegating part of his role to a machine, Mark Zuckerberg raises the question of what CEOs actually do, and how much of it is time well spent.” My FT column on Meta building an AI Zuckerberg — the reverse of “management by walking around”: as.ft.com/r/639f232a-f...

Absolutely! #BookSky

“My door is always open” as.ft.com/r/a03d7b45-0... Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff

Shoplifting “has become the latest something-must-be-done crime. But what?” The FT View on how to deal with the unsettling rise in retail theft as.ft.com/r/af14ec78-7...

How and why did business books break out of their hard covers? Here’s my analysis of the weird, AI-fuelled future of the book, as we launch this year’s FT Business Book of the Year Award with new partner Standard Chartered as.ft.com/r/57cd8af8-c... #BBYA26

‘Management consultants often ask clients: “What does success look like?” As war in the Middle East approaches its third week, companies are having to consider the opposite question: “What does failure look like?”’ - the FT View on how war is reshaping business as.ft.com/r/56ba82e3-d...

Redzepi's resignation reminded me just how long the allegations have been out there. I wrote about Noma and the lessons for managers in 2015 when Redzepi was asking whether there was "still room for guys like me" in the industry as.ft.com/r/c5630b84-3...

Travel is “getting harder for the wrong people”, but “for the right people, I don’t see any impact [on] the mood” - Dubai-based Zubin Karkaria, CEO of VFS, the world’s largest visa processor, unbowed by geopolitical turmoil. Interview by me and @stephistacey.ft.com as.ft.com/r/8116e003-b...

This is a little premature, but I'm delighted to say my book about shorthand, one of the world's oldest workplace technologies, is now available for pre-order ahead of November publication by Profile Books www.amazon.co.uk/Take-Note-Ni... #TakeNote #shorthand

Once in a while, along comes a news story that sums up the mad times we live in as.ft.com/r/c38cc40a-1...

It’s Charles Dickens’ birthday, and he would be flabbergasted to see how civilisation as he thought of it is being gleefully dismantled by venal hypocrites, sinister buffoons and raving narcissistic autocrats whom he would have rejected as villains too grotesque even for his novels.

Colleague and fellow Davos-goer @pilitaclark.bsky.social has ideated around her North Star, operationalised her five days at the Alpine summit and shared some key takeaways that should be top of mind as you follow your red thread through 2026 as.ft.com/r/d6606d08-1...

“Less an algorithmic perversion than a mirror to our already pervasive ego-massaging culture” - @emmavj.bsky.social on the sycophantic omnipresence of AI in our work lives as.ft.com/r/4177d473-5...

Pray you once more, Is not your father grown incapable Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear? Know man from man? Dispute his own estate? Lies he not bed-rid? And again does nothing But what he did being childish?

A warm welcome to Standard Chartered, new partner for the FT Business Book of the Year Award #BBYA26 #BusinessBooks as.ft.com/r/9db1f3fa-a...

“Culture remains. Because even if you destroy the books, that culture is within people, their minds, in everything” - an uplifting tale for this ominous new year #booksky as.ft.com/r/5ebe84b7-d...

In praise of boredom - the FT View about how to cultivate the right type of tedium over the festive period as.ft.com/r/be5e9690-4...

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is “totally driven by negative emotion in a way that I have never seen in a CEO before” - my interview with FT/Schroders book award-winner Stephen Witt on the FT Behind the Money podcast #BBYA25 open.spotify.com/episode/2xvq...

Onward and upward for stairlift maker Stannah, as the family heads upstairs and brings in its first non-family CEOs. My interview with 5th- and 6th-generation Jon and Sam Stannah on success, succession and family values as.ft.com/r/792c958b-d...

Onward and upward for stairlift maker Stannah, as the family heads upstairs and brings in its first non-family CEOs. My interview with 5th- and 6th-generation Jon and Sam Stannah on success, succession and family values as.ft.com/r/792c958b-d...

What if “the book could respond to the reader, and, using AI, generate a unique bespoke text that speaks directly to their concerns”? - my interview with FT/Schroders award-winner Stephen Witt on Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the future of books as.ft.com/r/7aa36214-e... #BBYA25

What if “the book could respond to the reader, and, using AI, generate a unique bespoke text that speaks directly to their concerns”? - my interview with FT/Schroders award-winner Stephen Witt on Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the future of books as.ft.com/r/7aa36214-e... #BBYA25

Musk’s trillion-dollar payout “floats beyond Neptune, about 17,000 times the distance of a mere moonshot” - my column on why Elon’s out-of-this-world pay targets are as damaging as they are distant as.ft.com/r/3beb41c7-1... via @financialtimes

Brilliant piece about the women who made London divorce capital of the world - including a telling reference to a "fur-off" in St Petersburg, where some of them allegedly competed to sport the grandest accessory, by @joshspero.ft.com and Suzi Ring @journosooz.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/255a...

The CEO who carries seven mice in her backpack and why Logitech will provide “the eyes, the ears and the hands of AI”. My FT interview with Hanneke Faber, former high-diver who plunged into tech on.ft.com/48vywuv

Pilita Clark is rightly irritated and unnerved by the ubiquity of AI “helpers” - but I worry what will happen when they no longer bother declaring themselves on.ft.com/489Do9B @pilitaclark.bsky.social

“This whole thing is just a no: a book about business [and] privileged white guys making lots of money” - many publishers rejected the novel Drayton and Mackenzie. I talked to author Alexander Starritt about why fiction only sees the bad in business on.ft.com/3KpKjSX #BBYA25

NEW: The best business books of 2025, our annual interview with @andrewtghill.ft.com, organizer of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award: fivebooks.com/best-books/b...

“This whole thing is just a no: a book about business [and] privileged white guys making lots of money” - many publishers rejected the novel Drayton and Mackenzie. I talked to author Alexander Starritt about why fiction only sees the bad in business on.ft.com/3KpKjSX #BBYA25