I know I ought to try and strike a cheery note for the first post of 2010. But, if you haven’t seen it yet, do read Martin Wolf’s sobering analysis from a few days ago.
I have written a column for tomorrow’s paper on the need for more fresh thinking in management. But my colleague makes a bigger and more important point. The risk of complacency setting in among policy makers is great. The worst has been avoided, for now. But this remains a fragile system, and a fragile world.
Stefan Stern writes a column on Tuesdays on management. He is winner of the 2010 Towers Watson award for excellence in HR journalism, and has previously won awards from the Work Foundation and the Management Consultancies Association.
Ravi Mattu is the editor of Business Life, the FT's management features
section, and a former editor of the Mastering Management series. He joined the FT in 2000 from Prospect magazine
Lucy Kellaway writes a column on Mondays on work , poking fun at management fads and jargon and celebrating the ups and downs of office life. She is also the FT's Agony Aunt.
Luke Johnson writes an FT column on Wednesdays on entrepreneurship. He runs Risk Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and is chairman of the Royal Society of Arts.
Lucy Kellaway, FT columnist and associate editor, offers her solution to your workplace problems in a column in the Financial Times. In the online edition of her Dear Lucy 'agony aunt' column, readers are invited to have a say too.
