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Are leaders sexier than managers?

If you were asked to imagine a manager, you might well conjure up someone comically boring, desk-bound and monotonal. Now do the same for a leader. You may well be picturing someone...

How big is the role of luck in career success?

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Luck plays a big and often unacknowledged part in career success, starting in...

Meet India’s mega-wealthy

Indian plutocracy can seem set in stone. The top two spots in the annual rich list compiled by Hurun, which tracks such things, invariably go to the Ambani and Adani clans. This...

Canon tries to break ASML’s grip on chipmaking tools

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Purveyors of chipmaking tools seldom attract attention. Yet many investors’ heads turned on...

Why big oil is beefing up its trading arms

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.IN THE 1950s the oil market was in the gift of the “Seven...

Are America’s CEOs overpaid?

“We’re fed up with falling behind,” declared Shawn Fain, the boss of America’s United Auto Workers (UAW), last month after the union began a campaign of intermittent strikes at Ford, General Motors...

Are America’s allies the holes in its export-control fence?

AMERICA MAKES no bones about wanting to stop China, its autocratic rival for geopolitical supremacy, from getting hold of advanced technology. Any day now the White House is expected to extend restrictions...

The fall of China’s “manganese king” may hit global EV supply chains

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.ONE AFTER another, the empires of China’s most powerful industrialists are collapsing. In...

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