Knowledge Management

Hundreds of Businessmen Later

The author’s role at the Financial Times was company commentator and specialist writer for the newspaper’s Management page, which gave him the opportunity of meeting, on an annual basis, literally hundreds of senior-ranking businessmen across the commercial spectrum. The industrial transformation could not have been more dramatic, with the period around 1980 marked by companies being mainly reactive and defensive in character. Thereafter, once the government started demonstrating through legislation that the industrial initiative was being shifted to the boardroom, companies literally mutated before the author’s eyes. Among the areas in which the author took a special interest were personnel, management education, ...