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Archive for April, 2009

The Working Week 99

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Are company boards doing their jobs properly? How should companies and their boards work together? What about the role of independent directors? How are they and how are they recruited?
To explore this, Wayne is joined this week by corporate governance specialist Lesley Stephenson, who is publisher of Governance, a monthly newsletter authoritative, providing news and [...]

 
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The Working Week 98: Alan Lurie

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Alan Lurie is the Managing Director of Grubb & Ellis, a large New York real estate firm. He is also a nondenominational ordained Rabbi whose weekly staff meetings on Monday mornings start off with his thoughts on some questions not related to real estate. Things like authenticity, balance, honesty, happiness, humor and how to understand [...]

 
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The Working Week 97: Work and popular culture

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Why does work get such a bad press in both popular and highbrow culture? From Dickens to Zola to the Who, work always seems to be displayed in a negative light, the 9-5 as the enemy of the free soul.
Wayne’s guest this week is author Phil Whiteley, who is exploring the representation of work in [...]

 
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The Working Week 96: Dinah Bennett on the New Normal

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

This week, Wayne is joined by Dinah Bennett, director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at Durham Business School in the UK, to discuss “the new normal” – what the business environment might look like when we finally emerge from the recession.
Dinah researches and teaches regionally, nationally and internationally on marketing related issues and [...]

 
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