Bob Collymore, Safaricom ©Peter Muller The Monday Interview 2:37pm

From oil painter to the C-suite

Bob Collymore, head of Kenya’s Safaricom, has built a career based on constant adaptation

Business education

Street vendors push their carts along a side street in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. Vietnam has no need for loans from the International Monetary Fund, China, Japan, South Korea or neighbors in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as the country has taken steps to overhaul its economy and banks, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said. ©Bloomberg
There is a glut of graduates with business qualifications in the region
– William Barnes
More public funding is being diverted to lower levels of education
– Yann Morell y Alcover
Harvard tops the rankings marking a resurgence in US programmes
Lucy Kellaway 11:55am

I can’t stop my cyber loafing

We need the equivalent of the stocks to persuade people to get off the net and get on with their work

Pete Smith Operator CCTV Operator ©Charlie Bibby The Job 2:36pm

CCTV intelligence operator

Pete Smith monitors passengers’ body language

The Careerist 2:37pm

Temporary reassignments

‘Stay in touch or it can be difficult to reintegrate’

Fred Bassett, gangmaster at his office in Wisbech. ©Si Barber Emma Jacobs Feb 21, 2013

An eye for the pick of the crop

The gangmaster Fred Bassett adopts a pragmatic approach to using migrant workers

The Last Word Feb 21, 2013

An app for that ‘techie’ trading strategy

A company aims to be the iTunes of online trades

Vine Personal Technology Feb 21, 2013

Apps vying to take the lead in mobile video

Services for shooting and enhancing smartphone film

Mike Skapinker Michael Skapinker Feb 20, 2013

Consumers forget crises, regulators don’t

Businesses are learning that if they don’t put their house in order others will

Businessman meditating in chair in office foyer, colleagues walking past, low section blurred motion ©Alamy Feb 20, 2013

A few minutes to refocus

Companies are using mindfulness techniques to improve productivity and reduce stress

John Gapper from BUSINESS BOOKS Feb 20, 2013

An epic told by the man at its centre

The AIG Story by Maurice R. Greenberg and Lawrence A. Cunningham

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