Andrew Hill

Wire columnist

Andrew Hill is an associate editor and the management editor of the Financial Times. He is a former City editor, financial editor and comment and analysis editor. He is the author of Leadership in the Headlines (2016), a collection of his columns, and Ruskinland (2019), about the enduring influence of the Victorian thinker John Ruskin

Being a manager matters more than ever

Extensive research, both before and during the pandemic has shown that good management pays off

Companies’ flight from Moscow sets some hard precedents

Re-entering Russian market – if and when it becomes feasible – will be no easy feat

Time to end toxic practice of rewarding people for failure

Handing out knighthoods and bonuses for screwing up is demoralising and poisonous

‘I’m old, not an idiot’: Older customers are ill-served by online strategies

Older customers are suffering because of organisations’ failure of customer strategy

Helping staff survive the trauma of a takeover threat

Three steps managers can take to bring staff through periods of great uncertainty

The paradox that leads professionals into temptation

If everyone is now a ‘professional’ – what does professionalism actually mean?

The queasy ‘Enron feeling’ that directors must never ignore

Twenty years after energy group collapse, memories are fading – and that is dangerous

Too much choice is confusing and unsustainable

Ford’s simple Model-T offering in black teaches much to modern supply chain agents

How management fashions can change the world

Innovative organisational habits are slow to catch on, but they can transform bloated bureaucracies

Can hybrid meetings ever live up to the real thing?

In-person meetings can trump video calls but there is a place for a best-of-both approach

The flexibility factor: Who must go back to the office?

Tech firms tend towards maximum choice for staff, with financial firms the most rigid

Bad management is not the fault of remote workers

Managers need to take responsibility for thier own failings

A win-at-all-costs mindset means Olympians miss out

Pursuit of glory can come at expense of healthier life balance and better long-term future

World can learn from Indian businesses’ ‘jugaad’ innovations

Pandemic forces companies to think creatively and jolts consumers into 21st century

It’s time to extinguish the ‘burning platform’ for good

The implication that change management is a matter of life or death was always in slightly dubious taste