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Boss Class 5 - Meetings: The clown car
Season 1 Episode 5
What if all the meetings in your calendar disappeared overnight? Tia Silas, Chief HR Officer of Shopify, an e-commerce firm, tells Andrew Palmer what…
1 year ago
Boss Class 4 - Teamwork: Inside the yellow line
Season 1 Episode 4
Taavet Hinrikus, the co-founder of Wise, one of the world’s biggest fintech firms, gives advice on forming and running teams. Andrew Palmer learns th…
1 year ago
Boss Class 3 - Recruitment: Testing, testing
Season 1 Episode 3
It is the most important decision a manager can make. How do you increase your chances of hiring the right people? Tracey Franklin, Moderna's human-r…
1 year ago
Boss Class 2 - Hybrid work: Out of office
Season 1 Episode 2
To manage a workforce divided between the home and office, bosses should ask the five basic questions of journalism: who, what, where, when and why. …
1 year ago
Boss Class 1 - Leadership: Weed it and reap
Season 1 Episode 1
Andrew Palmer, The Economist's Bartleby columnist, learns lessons in management on a Norwegian mountainside. He hears from Emma Walmsley, the CEO of …
1 year ago
Trailer: Boss Class Season 2
Season 2
Good bosses are rare. They don’t have to be. The skills of management can be learned.
The Economist’s management columnist, Andrew Palmer, is here to …
1 year ago
Modi behaviour: will India retaliate against Pakistan?
Tensions between India and Pakistan have flared after the terrorist attack in Kashmir last week. Our correspondent explains what Narendra Modi may do…
1 year ago
Carney score: last days of Canada’s campaign
Canada’s sovereignty has loomed large in the federal election campaign, but beyond the show of national unity the country’s media and political lands…
1 year ago
Fed man walking? Trump v Powell
First, Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, was for the chop; then he was safe. As elsewhere President Donald Trump’s flip-flopping chips …
1 year ago
Division multiplication: the UAE’s foreign meddling
The United Arab Emirates projects an image of level-headed calm in the Gulf. Its actions abroad, however, betray a far more divisive and ideological …
1 year ago