Margaret Heffernan Journalist Profile

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Team spirit is essential to the corporate turnaround

Dec 13, 2024 | ft.com | Margaret Heffernan

The writer is the author of ‘Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future’Turnarounds are tougher than they look.
Earning half the minimum wage: new report reveals pressures on artists to sustain creative life

Dec 13, 2024 | theconversation.com | Margaret Heffernan

Artists are generally thought of as either starving in a garret (La Bohème and all that) or jammy millionaires producing works valued at eye-watering sums (hello Damien Hirst). But the reality of life in the visual arts is more prosaic and a great deal more worrying, as the publication of Glasgow University’s report into the pressures facing UK visual artists reveals.
Tribal — can our cultural instincts power positive change?

Nov 13, 2024 | ft.com | Margaret Heffernan

Like many treatises on group behaviour, Tribal by Michael Morris opens with a story about sport.
Why companies must avoid the status quo trap

Nov 13, 2024 | ft.com | Margaret Heffernan

The writer is the author of ‘Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future’ Years ago, when I ran tech start-ups, I met senior Disney executives...
Books That Shook the Business World: Good to Great by Jim Collins

Sep 9, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Margaret Heffernan

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Books That Shook the Business World: Good to Great by Jim Collins

Sep 9, 2024 | theconversation.com | Margaret Heffernan

As important as what to read is what not to read. So instead of recommending a book on leadership or management (these categories get very confused), I want to suggest that nobody read the ostensible classic, Jim Collins’s Good To Great, first published in 2001 and a steady bestseller ever since. What’s wrong with this book? Let me count the ways. For me, its first flaw lies in its language.
We need to stop asking how Grenfell happened and start asking why

Sep 6, 2024 | ft.com | Margaret Heffernan

The writer is author of ‘Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril’ The inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire detailed...
Why more executive careers should start in a parish council

Apr 15, 2024 | ft.com | Margaret Heffernan

When I tell people I am a parish councillor, they always laugh.
Transcript: What can I do when my employees are afraid to speak up?

Apr 3, 2024 | ft.com | Isabel Berwick |Michael Skapinker |Margaret Heffernan

This is an audio transcript of the Working It podcast episode: What can I do when my employees are afraid to speak up?
For young people, the job search has never been so miserable

Mar 28, 2024 | ft.com | Margaret Heffernan

The writer is the author of ‘Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future’ I’m currently employing a young man, a recent graduate with a degree...