Day: July 17, 2026

Serving in the Boardroom

I play social tennis, mostly old-man doubles. It is friendly rather than fiercely competitive, though everyone still wants to win. As I’ve studied human factors,

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Not so pretty Polly

In the late 1980s, Polly Peck International was the City’s “wonder stock”. Analysts reportedly adorned the covers of their research reports with full-page portraits of

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