Book Reviews & Articles

"Reading is the main way that I both learn new things and test my understanding." Bill Gates in an interview with the New York Times in 2016

Everyone in a leadership position knows that gaining knowledge, remaining curious and being challenged are good and even essential ways to keep on top of things.

We all have our reading lists, but too often it’s hard to find time to get started with them. So we’ll provide a regular review by Ophicleide, one of our associates, to tempt us to read the actual book! And we are more than happy to accept reviews from others. Do please contact us if you have one to present.

January 2021

Lionel BARBER, The Powerful and the Damned : private diaries in turbulent times

Friday, 15 January 2021

Lionel Barber has recently retired after fifteen successful years as editor of the Financial Times. This is a chronology of how it all came to pass. It is not a tome of management advice. Rather, it is a thoroughly readable and very entertaining journey through the world’s glittering halls of fame, punctuated with frequent snapshots of the internationally and domestically great and sometimes not so good, followed up pithy summaries of how they struck this personable and gifted journalist.

Lionel BARBER, The Powerful and the Damned : private diaries in turbulent times