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  • Sunday, 26 June, 2022
    InterviewLeadership
    JSR’s Eric Johnson: ‘I encourage people to tell me exactly how they think’

    The chief of Japan’s leading semiconductor materials maker explains how he restructured the company through honest dialogue with staff and stakeholders

  • Sunday, 12 June, 2022
    InterviewLeadership
    McKinsey’s Bob Sternfels: ‘We’re OK if you don’t agree with us’

    The consultancy’s global partner preaches ‘humility’ after scandals but says the firm also needs ‘grit’ to counter its critics

  • Sunday, 29 May, 2022
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    Unite’s Sharon Graham: ‘I felt this was a moment for the union movement to be reborn’

    The first female boss of the UK’s largest union is focusing on jobs, pay and conditions — and has hired an economist

  • Sunday, 15 May, 2022
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    Pallas’s Natasha Harrison: ‘I felt completely like an outsider going into law’

    The British-born lawyer was set to take over from David Boies, one of the world’s most famous litigators, but instead quit to start her own firm

  • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
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    Expedia’s Peter Kern: ‘Be straight with your people about how you feel’

    The travel executive has set about streamlining a sprawling group and taking it in a new direction

  • Sunday, 24 April, 2022
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    Johns Hopkins’ president: the fight to cut unfair legacy admissions

    Despite pushback, Ronald Daniels has striven to make entry into higher education more meritocratic

  • Sunday, 17 April, 2022
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    Coursera’s Jeff Maggioncalda: ‘Now we can go after the best people’

    The online learning platform’s CEO on grasping the opportunities of a post-pandemic landscape

  • Sunday, 10 April, 2022
    FT SeriesLeading in a crisis
    Wrightbus’s Buta Atwal: ‘It was a big risk at the time: this isn’t Tesla’

    Reviving and reinventing the British bus manufacturer demanded quick, tough decisions — and emotional intelligence

  • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
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    Stoli’s Damian McKinney: ‘I have one more special forces mission in me’

    The boss of the spirits company, and former Royal Marine, on trademark battles and being the target of anti-Russian protests

  • Sunday, 27 March, 2022
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    A ‘$200mn gamble’: UAE Space Agency chair on its mission to Mars

    Sarah Al Amiri’s challenge was to build up the Gulf state’s small scientific community as fast as possible

  • Sunday, 20 March, 2022
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    PureGym chief: keeping faith in the business model

    Despite pandemic closures and failed IPOs, Humphrey Cobbold remains confident in the no-frills approach

  • Sunday, 13 March, 2022
    FT SeriesLeading in a crisis
    Oxfam GB chief: ‘Doing good can’t be an excuse for tolerating harm’

    Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah took on the challenge of changing the culture at the scandal-hit organisation

  • Sunday, 6 March, 2022
    InterviewLeadership
    Red Bull Racing’s Christian Horner: ‘My job is to push as hard as I can’

    The Formula One team principal on his addiction to winning and how to handle the intense rivalry in the sport

  • Sunday, 27 February, 2022
    FT SeriesLeading in a crisis
    EMBL’s Edith Heard: making European science work post-Brexit

    The scientist has strengthened her organisation’s finances and formulated a more outward-looking strategy

  • Sunday, 20 February, 2022
    InterviewLeadership
    ‘Paw Patrol’ to the rescue for children’s TV creator Keith Chapman

    The 2008 crisis forced the writer to shut down his company, but he bounced back with a multibillion-dollar success

  • Sunday, 13 February, 2022
    FT SeriesLeading in a crisis
    How Gympass reinvented itself as Covid struck

    Cesar Carvalho feared the pandemic would close his ‘wellness’ platform — until he expanded its digital offering

  • Sunday, 6 February, 2022
    FT SeriesLeading in a crisis
    Pandemic teaches Go Ape’s co-founders the value of employee ownership

    Rebecca and Tristram Mayhew changed their succession plans after seeing how committed staff were in the crisis

  • Sunday, 30 January, 2022
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    Trinny Woodall: from fashion guru to beauty empire founder

    The former TV presenter learnt crucial lessons after a business failure at the height of the dotcom boom

  • Sunday, 23 January, 2022
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    Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon: ‘You have to bet the company’

    A surge in pandemic demand challenged the tech boss to secure supplies of its chips — as well as planning a future in the metaverse

  • Sunday, 16 January, 2022
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    T Rowe Price’s Bill Stromberg on building the right culture

    Asset manager’s former CEO says the highest pay isn’t why people stay at firms, ‘people want to be a part of something special’

  • Sunday, 9 January, 2022
    FT SeriesLeading in a crisis
    Cirque du Soleil’s Daniel Lamarre: from $1bn to zero revenues in 48 hours

    The executive vice-chair steered the circus group through management change and commercial challenges — then Covid struck

  • Sunday, 19 December, 2021
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    HubSpot’s Yamini Rangan on the challenges of sudden power

    The software executive was propelled into the top job after the company’s founder had a serious accident

  • Sunday, 12 December, 2021
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    How one founder meets the challenge of staying ethical and profitable

    David Gordon, chair of bamboo clothing label BAM, focuses on superior materials and trusted suppliers

  • Sunday, 5 December, 2021
    InterviewLeadership
    How the GE Appliances chief turned from ‘process guy’ into an innovator

    Kevin Nolan led a shake-up of the company’s culture following a takeover — and took it down an entrepreneurial path

  • Sunday, 28 November, 2021
    InterviewLeadership
    Julian Metcalfe: the Itsu chief on seeking ruthless efficiency

    The founder and CEO of the Asian fast-food chain listens to staff and suppliers in a quest to keep meals at £7

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