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Soft-talking revolutionary
Takashi Shoda, chief executive of Daiichi Sankyo, speaks in quiet tones that belie his radical shake-up of one of Japan’s biggest drug companies, which has undergone three significant changes in management focus in recent years
The careerist: Humour in the workplace
There’s a fine line between telling jokes and being one
The job: Hygiene specialist
Malcolm Penny, Rentokil
Twitter in 140 characters
Biz Stone, co-founder of the microblogging service
How Amazon orders its Christmas
Cold commercial logic lurks in apparent chaos
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On work
Public speaking without tears
Make sure the person who’s onstage before you is boring and uses plenty of slides, and pick the right audience, writes Lucy Kellaway
On Management
Ideas that stand the test of time
On the centenary of his birth, Drucker is still the one management writer that almost everyone agrees is worth reading, writes Stefan Stern
The entrepreneur
Ups and downs of partnerships
They are the oldest form of business structure and can often be complex and boisterous, but they have their advantages, writes Luke Johnson
Personal technology
Let the shopping begin
In the first part of our holiday gift guide, smartphones, digital music devices and cameras are the gadgets that make the grade, writes Paul Taylor
Judgment Call
How do you prevent splits on projects?
How do you keep multiple teams working on the same project ‘on message’? What are the mistakes to be avoided?
How do you pull off a U-turn?
When is a company justified in changing its mind, and how should the process be managed?
Business Books
Dreams of a techno-utopia
‘Enterprise 2.0’ looks at social networks, blogs and wikis, which have revolutionised personal communication but are yet to make a big impact in the workplace
How Wall St tore itself apart
Aggressive financial reporter Charlie Gasparino, author of ‘The Sellout’, was as close as anyone to the Street’s big, wayward figures before they met their downfall
Three idealists awaiting wisdom
In ‘Googled’, the search group’s founders come across as fallible humans who, if they do make the world a better place, will have done so by happy accident
FT Business School on video
What makes a good leader?
Deborah Ancona, faculty director of the leadership centre at MIT Sloan, on the importance of leadership
Moving up/Moving out
Insead’s Herminia Ibarra explains how to assume a leadership role - or switch careers entirely
Managing in a downturn
In a series of videos, Wharton faculty members give a global overview of the economic turmoil
India: the base of the pyramid
Five professors from the Indian School of Business examine issues in emerging markets
Managerial psychology
Nick Epley of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business applies psychological research to work
Defending the Chicago school
Economist Prof Gary Becker on why markets work well and how governments usually “mess things up”
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