FT column: Authentic leadership needs skill to succeed
When Texas congressman and US Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul accused his rival Rick Santorum of being “fake” during last week’s televised debate, Mr Santorum pinched himself and said: “I’m real, Ron, I’m real,
I’m real.” Read more
The glass ceiling – in pictures
What does the march of women into senior executive positions look like? Something like this, according to a new Thomson Reuters report:
Progress to the C-suite: the steeper, the better
Each triangle represents one of the 1,965 companies in the Asset4 global database of environmental, social and governance information. If the proportion of female managers out of total management were the same as the proportion in the workforce, the lines would cut the graph in two, bottom-left to top-right. But the lines remain shallow, despite a slight improvement between 2005 and 2010.
As I’ve written recently, an obsession with boardroom quotas is a distraction. Groups that want to fish in a deeper talent pool – and improve innovation and corporate performance – should be more worried about the shallow gradient of these executive lines. Read more
Bloomberg and the beauty of private databases
It sounds technical but I find the most intriguing aspect of the newly redesigned Bloomberg financial information service is the search engine.
I went to a presentation in New York today on Bloomberg Next, a simplified and restructured version of its $20,000 a year service, to hear how it intends the $100m initiative to keep adding subscriptions in a tough market. Read more
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John Gapper is an associate editor and the chief business commentator of the FT.
He has worked for the FT since 1987, covering labour relations, banking and the media. He is co-author, with Nicholas Denton, of 'All That Glitters', an account of the collapse of Barings in 1995.
Andrew Hill is an associate editor and the management editor of the FT. He is a former City editor, financial editor, comment and analysis editor, New York bureau chief, foreign news editor and correspondent in Brussels and Milan.
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