Column: Dubai

by | Jul 30, 2008 | Columns

Published in The Times There are certain places that I would like to visit before I die, Tokyo, Mumbai and Havana among them. But, like grilled cheese sandwiches, I don’t travel very well and there are many more places that I would rather die than visit. And,...

Column: Brevity is Best

by | Jun 6, 2006 | Columns

Published in The Financial Times Last week I wrote about how I would rather eat my own arms and legs than speak in public and received two sorts of response: e-mails from people who would, similarly, rather eat (their own) limbs than make a speech; and e-mails from...

Column: Hedge fund managers

by | Mar 6, 2005 | Columns

Published in The Financial Times After the butternut squash soup, followed by the rump of lamb with chateaux potato and ribbons of carrot, one of the two hedge fund managers looked me straight in the eye and asked: “So then, would you fancy my job?” Wiping some of the...

Column: The Company Song

by | Jun 6, 2004 | Columns

Published in The Financial Times Business fads, I am beginning to discover, are a bit like Bobby Ewing in Dallas: they never die. They may disappear for a while but, when you’re least expecting it, they reappear in your shower cubicle, wearing nothing more than a thin...