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Stefan Stern writes a weekly column on management for the Business Life section, appearing on Tuesdays.
He has been writing about business, finance and management for the past 17 years. He has won awards for his work from the Work Foundation and the Management Consultancies Association.
Born in south London in 1967, Stefan studied French and German at Oriel College, Oxford. He is married with two daughters.
Do you have any comments on a Stefan Stern column? He will be responding to FT readers on his Management blog.
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Fond farewell to a brilliant thinker
The death of Russ Ackoff at the age of 90 has provoked an outpouring of regret and admiration for a management thinker who remained a too well-kept secret, writes Stefan Stern
Big lessons we can learn from Little Chef
What happens at branches of Little Chef when Blumenthal and his camera crew are not there? That is the question that matters, writes Stefan Stern
Living strategy and death of the five-year plan
Strategy has changed. While eternal truths – about market position and scale – endure, a more dynamic approach is needed, writes Stefan Stern
Failing to cope with change?
Managers can underestimate the difficulties of turning around business practices writes Stefan Stern
A new look at age-old questions
There are big prizes to be won by companies that lose the fixation on date of birth and instead focus on what people want and need now, writes Stefan Stern
How to compete in an upside down world
Leading managers do not wait for crises to concentrate their minds – successful strategies will have left them better placed than their competitors, writes Stefan Stern
Time for the socially useful manager
Managers might find Lord Turner’s recent remarks about ‘socially useless’ financial innovation a useful prompt to reassess their priorities, writes Stefan Stern
Strengths become weaknesses
We need tough, strong, confident leaders. But how can we prevent them from spiralling out of control, wonders Stefan Stern
Pay attention to employer brand
When it comes to retaining good people, or simply attracting new ones, your image and reputation count, writes Stefan Stern
A matter of life and death
The public sector has no monopoly on bad procurement. Waste and incompetence beset the private sector as well, writes Stefan Stern
