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    Michael Skapinker

    Contributing editor

    Michael Skapinker is an FT contributing editor. He was an FT reporter, senior editor and award-winning columnist for 34 years. Among the positions he held were FT Weekend editor and management editor.

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    • Monday, 17 July, 2023
      Leadership
      Listen and you might learn something

      Sometimes staying quiet is the best way to gather insights and build relationships

      Meryl Streep stands in front the desk where Anne Hathaway is sitting in a still image from the film The Devil Wears Prada
    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      House & Home
      Ally Pally at 150: celebrating London’s ‘people’s palace’

      Gutted by fire twice and often near financial ruin, Alexandra Palace is a monument to Victorian ambition

      People in Alexandra Palace’s Great Hall for markets and birthday festivities, May 27
    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Working It podcast16 min listen
      How to plan for the next crisis

      Managers put companies at risk when they don’t plan for the worst-case scenario

    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      A Brilliant Commodity — shining a light on the Jewish diamond connection

      A flawed history of the tricontinental diamond trade focuses on Amsterdam’s Jodenbuurt

    • Sunday, 19 March, 2023
      Leadership
      From SVB to the BBC: why did no one see the crisis coming?

      Managers can put organisations at risk when they fail to plan for the worst-case scenario

      Illustration of four smiling people in a rowboat all pulling together, unaware they are about to tip over the edge of a waterfall
    • Sunday, 18 September, 2022
      FT SeriesLeading in a crisis
      Refugee Council’s Enver Solomon: ‘Leadership is something you’re constantly trying to improve’

      The chief executive talks about his route to the top and running the charity during an ‘extraordinary’ time

      Enver Solomon wearing glasses, blazer and open necked shirt, stands in the road outside his house with his hands in his trouser pockets
    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      Management
      Generation game: managing age cohorts requires subtlety

      At work the tensions within each group are as great as those between them

      Four co-workers in the creative industry laugh as they sit around a table
    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      How Minds Change by David McRaney — the power of persuasion

      If you really want to shift long-held beliefs, you have to listen, reveals a new book on the science of opinion

      Two men getting married
    • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
      Working It
      Make your next meeting ‘tactical’

      Plus, how hybrid work affects women and the limited success of skills boot camps

    • Monday, 6 June, 2022
      Management
      How to be a good middle manager

      They are a vital bridge between a company’s bosses and its staff — and the best ones are now needed more than ever

    • Monday, 25 April, 2022
      Leadership
      How to handle a narcissist in the workplace

      The behaviour of the late publishing magnate Robert Maxwell provides an object lesson in the psychology of extreme power

      Robert Maxwell reclining at his desk at the Mirror while on the telephone in 1987
    • Monday, 4 April, 2022
      Management
      Why are a leader’s first hundred days so important?

      Preparation for the job should start well before the new boss even takes the helm, and they should continue to learn once there, experts say

      President Franklin D Roosevelt takes the oath of office in 1933
    • 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

      Danny Sriskandarajah, chief executive of Oxfam GB. Photographed in an Oxfam library shop in Balham, London. Portraits by Richard Cannon for the Financial Times
    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      Management
      Why nobody thinks to thank their boss

      Your team think your job as a manager is to solve their problems. They are not there to solve yours

    • Tuesday, 14 December, 2021
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing — what have we learnt?

      A compelling account of the events that led to two plane crashes indicts an entire era of business practices

      Nadia Milleron, whose daughter Samya Stumo died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, watches as the Federal Aviation Administration’s Stephen Dickson leaves a hearing on Capitol Hill, June 2020
    • Monday, 6 December, 2021
      Leadership
      Confidence matters for new managers

      It can be daunting to deal with senior clients outside our area of expertise but fears can be overcome

      1930s WORRIED BUSINESS GROUP FIVE MEN AND ONE WOMAN IN OFFICE MEETING AROUND THE BOSS’ DESK
    • Saturday, 10 April, 2021
      Life & Arts
      My later-in-life rediscovery of Jane Austen

      Her six completed novels shed light on England’s language and history

    • Monday, 22 March, 2021
      Business travel
      What we lose if we stop travelling on business

      In a final dispatch, our columnist looks back at the benefits of hitting the road

    • Thursday, 18 March, 2021
      UK services sector
      Britain’s professional services grapple with life after Brexit

      Business leaders are bewildered by visa and work permit restrictions imposed by UK-EU trade agreement

    • Friday, 5 March, 2021
      Lunch with the FT
      The CEO whisperer: ‘Every leader needs a fool’

      Management thinker Manfred Kets de Vries on the secrets of staying grounded at the top

    • Monday, 1 March, 2021
      Business travel
      Private jets can cut health risks — but add reputational ones

      Demand during the pandemic has remained strong, but companies will be keen to keep private flying under the radar

    • Monday, 15 February, 2021
      Business travel
      Are planes as Covid-safe as the airlines say?

      Modern air filters are highly effective but studies suggest on board transmission can still happen

    • Monday, 1 February, 2021
      Business travel
      Facing up to the demands of post-Brexit business travel

      Working trips between the EU and UK will still be possible — but with more planning and paperwork

      Eurostar trains at St Pancras International Station in London, January 2021
    • Monday, 18 January, 2021
      Business travel
      British business travellers face a bewildering return to the EU

      It’s not just new rules that will cause headaches — but the fact they vary from one member state to the next

    • Tuesday, 5 January, 2021
      Business travel
      Even post-Covid, frequent flyers face more time on the ground

      Growing environmental pressure will clip the wings of many

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