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A business is a business is a business. That seems to be the thinking behind the appointments of Archie Norman as Chairman of ITV and Adam Crozier as Chief Executive. Archie Norman has previously headed up Asda and Energis, and enjoyed a spell as Tory MP and shadow minister. Adam Crozier has run Royal Mail, the Football Association and Saatchi & Saatchi. Two very successful businessmen with impressive track records. Neither has any experience of TV. But does this matter? After all, a business is a business is a business. It seems not to matter what it does, what matters is how it is run. (more…)

A solution in the Royal Mail dispute is looking increasingly unlikely, even though each side claim that the future of the organisation depends upon it. In matters like this there is rarely a clear right and wrong, what is important is to reach an agreement that leaves all sides more satisfied than not. (more…)

“Now is the Winter of Our Discontent”. The opening words of Shakespeare’s Richard III were used to describe the profound industrial unrest that took place in 1978-9 Schools and airports closed for lack of workers, and ambulance drivers struck,. For several months the country was riven by strikes. Rubbish piled high in the street. Thousands of petrol stations were closed. Schools and airports closed for lack of workers, and ambulance drivers struck, grave diggers in Liverpool downed tools. (more…)