In defence of LinkedIn
The 137 per cent surge in LinkedIn’s shares on the first day of trading – on a stock that was initially priced at 17 times last year’s estimated sales – is pretty much impossible to justify on normal...
View ArticleFacebook’s cloud passes over sunny Silicon Valley
The dismal performance of Facebook’s initial public offering, after several years in which it was expected to crown the emergence on public markets of social networks, is bound to dampen the mood in...
View ArticleFT column: Executive heads hunted by new tribes
In Jo Nesbo’s thriller Headhunters, “king of the heap” search consultant Roger Brown has to fund his extravagant lifestyle by stealing art from the walls of candidates’ homes while his colleagues are...
View ArticleFT column: Tour of duty theory destabilises the troops
Detroit’s bankruptcy has many implications, but for Reid Hoffman it will reinforce the cautionary metaphor in his 2012 book The Start-Up of You: “When it comes to your career . . . you may be heading...
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Newspapers are a haven for the curious, so keep on reading them for your sake...
I had an interesting reader email to my column today on why the improved relevance of the recommendations sent to me by social networks such as Twitter and LinkedIn is not a good thing for managers. If...
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GM lifer Barra is ready to hit the open road
GM's off - and Barra's driving (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images) Of two immediately obvious facts about Mary Barra, chief executive elect at General Motors, the more interesting is not that she is a woman...
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