Introducing management by mammoth tooth - interesting profile of Novo Nordisk’s new boss by Aaron Kirchfeld and Aanu Adeoye as.ft.com/r/4b01a383-e... ‘Arrogance kills’: Novo chief injects risk-taking into Ozempic maker
Andrew Hill
@andrewtghill.ft.com
Journalist, speaker, writer. Forthcoming: 'Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand' (Profile Books, 2026)
Delighted to see my award-winning book #Ruskinland back in the Kindle store, thanks to @pallasathene.co.uk (hardback also still available via all good bookshops). The perfect introduction to the life and ideas of polymath John Ruskin www.amazon.co.uk/Ruskinland-J...
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“Soft-pedalling of gender targets for the executive pipeline could undermine wider efforts to improve the lot of female employees, such as narrowing the pay gap or encouraging flexible working” - my column on how the “Trump effect” is setting back corporate diversity as.ft.com/r/cf99e256-2...
The ‘Trump effect’ is taking a toll on corporate gender goals
Changes at the Australian Securities Exchange are the latest sign of a global rollback of diversity policies
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Ben Franklin said we should share our inventions “freely and generously”. Silicon Valley should give thanks; instead it sues. The FT View on the latest scrap in the war for talent between Apple and OpenAI as.ft.com/r/2de15b18-a...
In praise of the free flow of human ingenuity
Apple is suing OpenAI for alleged theft but Silicon Valley is founded on the exchange of ideas
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Employers are realising they can’t do without entry-level, AI-native young people - but if AI is doing the grunt work, how will the juniors ever learn to be seniors? My FT analysis of the changing shape of early careers as.ft.com/r/d7e1b744-2...
AI isn’t destroying entry-level jobs. It’s changing them
Here are the ways leading companies are already responding to the AI revolution in professional services
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“The days of ‘let a thousand flowers bloom’, tech for the sake of tech, are gone” - emmavj.bsky.social and I on how employers pushed staff to tokenmaxx, then changed their minds as.ft.com/r/f0bc9862-b...
Employers pushed staff to use AI more. That has backfired
Incentives to use new tools are changing as costs start to hit home
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Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.
“VW does not need more decision makers; it needs more sense-makers” - my FT column on why companies everywhere need leaders who can improvise in uncertain times, as the late, great Karl Weick advised as.ft.com/r/1235df54-e...
Volkswagen needs sense-makers at the top
Carmaker will have to cultivate capacity to improvise as it navigates the profound uncertainty it faces
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You may hope that AI spells the end of self-help books but it’ll take more than the most powerful technology ever devised to kill off the genre, concludes @emmavj.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/0b28cf06-3... ChatGPT moved my cheese: AI is unsettling the self-help shelf
ChatGPT moved my cheese: AI is unsettling the self-help shelf
Instant summaries sound the death knell for the bullet-point books that prey on our insecurities
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When Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe left captivity in Iran she vowed to leave the experience behind her. Politicians have “taken my present and my past, I’m not going to let them take my future” - the author and advocate, speaking at #FTWomen summit
Carol Shanahan is determined to turn Port Vale into “the best-run football club in the EFL”, a place where “humanity is prioritised, whereas I think in a lot of football, it’s not”. My interview with one of football’s few female owners #FTWomen www.ft.com/content/0e9d...
Carol Shanahan is playing eternal snakes and ladders
Port Vale football club has just been relegated, but its owner says: you win or you learn
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My pick of the best business books of 2026 so far (NB as always, I’ve left the tech books to colleague @johnthornhill.bsky.social ) as.ft.com/r/7f69463d-b... Best summer books of 2026: Business #BusinessBooks
Best summer books of 2026: Business
Andrew Hill selects his best mid-year reads
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Real Madrid’s Pérez and SpaceX’s Musk are “playing a dangerous game at the place where emotion and cold investment calculation overlap”. My latest FT column as.ft.com/r/f6d3c7f3-6... Real Madrid and the dangers of mixing fans and finance
Real Madrid and the dangers of mixing fans and finance
Club president Florentino Pérez’s aim of bringing in outside investors is high risk
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"This is a thankless moment for any established carmaker to launch a new vehicle" - the FT View on the lessons from the launch of Ferrari's all-electric Luce as.ft.com/r/7b868611-f...
A bumpy road to electric vehicle success
Ferrari Luce’s launch caused more heat than light but has lessons for incumbents
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🏆 The #BrackenPrize for Young Authors is back, supported by FT & Standard Chartered. If you're under 35 with an original business book idea, enter by 30 Sept. Winner £15,000; 2 runners-up £2,000 each, plus a masterclass and invitation to the award dinner brackenprize.live.ft.com
"Apart from breathing a sigh of relief that Musk’s plans to inhabit their planet are now a lower priority, what would a Martian beamed down to Wall Street make of the SpaceX IPO?" The FT View as.ft.com/r/f7111f7b-4...
To infinity and beyond, with the SpaceX IPO
Ordinary investors can at last bet directly on AI’s potential — with caveats
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A "profound and often tragic" story of language extinction and preservation - my FT review of @sophiasgaler.bsky.social's beautiful and moving new book as.ft.com/r/0eaf8f40-d...
How to Kill a Language — the beauty and value of linguistic diversity
Sophia Smith Galer’s moving book is a rallying call to revive minority tongues amid increasing globalisation
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“If you don’t win, it’s good to know that your money has gone somewhere” - @stephistacey.ft.com and I talked to CEO Andria Vidler about the challenge of reviving the National Lottery as.ft.com/r/2bd9e69b-7...
National Lottery CEO: ‘The scale of this transformation was unbelievable’
The UK institution, under the first new operator since its launch, is battling falling sales and new rivals
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'If you know Heart of Darkness, I feel like I did a bit of the journey down the river and got to see how our modern financial system works, up close' - Eric "Lean Startup" Ries talks to me about the horrors he discovered while writing his new book Incorruptible as.ft.com/r/6353d07a-d...
‘I’ve seen some things’: Eric Ries on why good companies go bad
Author of the start-up bible has turned his attention to corrupting influences at the heart of contemporary capitalism
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New research suggests family company employees are less intelligent than their counterparts elsewhere, held back by a ‘surname ceiling’ - my column why family companies aren’t as great as everyone thinks as.ft.com/r/3037c8ac-4...
The ‘surname ceiling’ holding back family companies
Many of the brightest workers steer clear of such businesses because promotions are scarcer and rewards lower
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Meet the art schools designing Champions League posters for Paris Saint-Germain www.nytimes.com/athletic/725...
Meet the art schools designing Champions League posters for Paris Saint-Germain (Gift Article)
The posters have been shared on PSG’s social media accounts and have received almost six million views across various channels
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'A powerful if one-sided case that wealthy elites have over centuries conspired with their managers to suggest that “there is no alternative” to market fundamentalism.' My FT review of Control Science by Henry Snow as.ft.com/r/e4fa99a2-b...
Control Science — a one-sided case against managers
From the inspection towers of 19th-century factories to the data architecture of Amazon warehouses, Henry Snow casts those who surveil workers as capitalism’s villains
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'As machined “thought leadership” overwhelms our inboxes and social media, AI will start learning from itself, homogenising all prose into grey slop' - the FT View on the dangers, and benefits, of AI-written prose as.ft.com/r/79a4316e-6...
The irresistible rise of authorial AI
Humans must get used to living and working with the quirks of machine-written text
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Inviting AI to the boardroom table once “seemed very Star Trekkie” , but now directors are asking ‘should we appoint a bot?’ @aarmstrongsays.bsky.social and I look into the trend as.ft.com/r/1086167f-1...
Should your board appoint a bot?
New AI tools help chairs and directors with prep and research but are unlikely to be granted a vote
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“Corporate boards have deduced that greater bulk is worth buying. Is it?” The FT View on record-breaking ‘megadeals’ - what should bidders learn from the last record year, 2015, which brought us, among others, M&A dud Kraft Heinz? as.ft.com/r/53c839cd-8...
‘Megadeals’ defy market fears and volatile geopolitics
Boards should heed the lessons of the last record surge in big M&A in 2015
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“By delegating part of his role to a machine, Mark Zuckerberg raises the question of what CEOs actually do, and how much of it is time well spent.” My FT column on Meta building an AI Zuckerberg — the reverse of “management by walking around”: as.ft.com/r/639f232a-f...
The CEO chatbot era is coming
Many executives will be tempted by Meta’s plans for AI version of Mark Zuckerberg with interest
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“My door is always open” as.ft.com/r/a03d7b45-0... Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff
Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff
[FREE TO READ] Chief executive is training and testing his own character as part of wider push to develop ‘personal superintelligence’
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Shoplifting “has become the latest something-must-be-done crime. But what?” The FT View on how to deal with the unsettling rise in retail theft as.ft.com/r/af14ec78-7...
How to make shoplifting a crime with consequences
[FREE TO READ] Police, shop owners and policymakers must combine to fight organised retail theft
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How and why did business books break out of their hard covers? Here’s my analysis of the weird, AI-fuelled future of the book, as we launch this year’s FT Business Book of the Year Award with new partner Standard Chartered as.ft.com/r/57cd8af8-c... #BBYA26
Breaking cover: the future of the business book
[FREE TO READ] Authors are experimenting with new technology and formats to better communicate ideas
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