In the final episode of three recorded at this year’s Global Peter Drucker Forum, the FT’s management editor Andrew Hill speaks to Jean-Dominique Senard, chief executive of Michelin, the French tyre manufacturer, and Namita Narkar, a marketing manager in the medical devices division of Abbott, the American multinational. The two discuss leadership and the importance of conviction and purpose in the grandiose surroundings of the Hofburg imperial palace in Vienna - which helps explain the echo you may hear.

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Leadership and the importance of purpose

In the second of three podcast episodes recorded at this year’s Global Peter Drucker Forum on management, the FT’s management editor Andrew Hill speaks to Isabelle Kocher, chief executive of Engie, and Hermann Arnold, co-founder of Haufe-umantis to exchange ideas on work and careers

A CEO and serial entrepreneur on how careers evolve

In the first of three podcasts recorded at the Global Peter Drucker Forum on management, FT management editor Andrew Hill asks Paul Polman, Unilever executive, and Wasima Khan, legal lexicographer and law lecturer at The Hague University of Applied Sciences to exchange ideas on leadership.

Paul Polman and a leader-to-be in conversation on the future of work

In this podcast, Andrew Hill discusses how to best bring a business book proposal to publication with Georgina Laycock, publisher for non-fiction at John Murray, Joel Rickett, deputy publisher at Ebury and Bracken Bower Prize judge, and Jonathan Conway, whose own London-based literary agency specialises in non-fiction.

Business book podcast: how to get your proposal published

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this series discusses the six shortlisted books with its authors. In this final episode, Helen Barrett, the FT’s Work & Careers editor, and FT economics commentator Martin Sandbu, talk to Jeremy Heimans, who together with Henry Timms co-wrote New Power: How it’s changing the 21st century — and why you need to know, and Annie Lowrey, author of Give People Money.

Business Book podcast: radical ideas for the future

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fifth series discusses the six shortlisted books with its authors. In this first episode, Jonathan Derbyshire, the FT’s executive opinion editor, talks to John Carreyrou, author of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, and James Crabtree, author of The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age

Business Book podcast: Extreme enterprise

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fifth series discusses the six shortlisted books with its authors. In this first episode, FT columnists Andrew Hill and Martin Wolf talk to Mariana Mazzucato, author of The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy, and Adrian Wooldridge, co-author (along with former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan) of Capitalism in America: A History.

Business Book podcast: capitalism, the past, present and future

The FT followed five people over the course of a year as they changed career in the middle of their working lives. In this final episode, Emma Jacobs hears about the challenges they have faced and their successes.

The Career Changers

There has been a shift from sending students overseas to study to offering them an MBA at home... not least in China, where the government is taking an active interest

Asia business schools are on an evolutionary march

They are at the top of their game, but they too were once just starting out. As students head to British universities in the next few weeks, we asked some of the speakers at the FT’s Weekend Festival to tell us what they wish they had known when they went to university.

Podcast: what I wish I had known at 18

How do you know when to ask for a promotion? And what is the best way to react if you think you are being underpaid? Knowing how to talk about money at work can give you a career advantage. Join Gillian Ku, assistant professor of organisational behaviour at LBS, Pip Jamieson, founder of The Dots, and Emma Humphreys, CFO at Unruly, as they talk to the FT's Isabel Berwick. This is an edited live-recording of an event the FT hosted in July.

How to talk about money at work

It's holiday time. But can you walk away from the office? Should you ignore emails, or is it wise to check in? Join author and professor of organisational behaviour André Spicer as he talks to FT writers Emma Jacobs and Andrew Hill about the best way to relax in the digital age.Produced by Patricia Nilsson and music by Jude Barrett-Hambling.

How to switch off for summer

The FT's Emma Jacobs talks to academic and author Joan Williams about her book White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America and why class in the workplace matters. As someone who has devoted most of her working life to gender issues, Professor Williams also has plenty to say on the #MeToo movement

Social class at work

What are the main challenges you face moving with your job as a gay person? FT journalists Emma Jacobs and Josh Spero talk to Patrick Rowe from Accenture.

Best practice when LBGT staff work abroad

FT journalists Laura Noonan and Patrick McGee completed their 2018 marathon in London. Isabel Berwick caught up with them on their fitness goals and what they will be doing next

Fit Hacks talk about the London Marathon

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