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...That peaked when Hong Kong’s chief executive John Lee and Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s $700bn Public Investment Fund, struck a celebratory gong....
...Here he profiles six leaders he has known — Lee Kuan Yew, Konrad Adenauer, Richard Nixon, Charles de Gaulle, Margaret Thatcher and Anwar Sadat — and draws general lessons about the character and intellect...
...Instead, they argue, leaders like Viktor Orbán and the late Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, “conceal autocracy within formally democratic institutions”....
...This year’s panellists were: Jorma Ollila, former chair of Royal Dutch Shell and Nokia; Stephanie Frerich, executive editor at publisher Simon & Schuster; Isabel Fernandez-Mateo, professor of strategy and...
...The other judges this year are: Stephanie Frerich, executive editor at publisher Simon & Schuster; Isabel Fernandez-Mateo, professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at London Business School; and Andrew...
...Apart from Andrew Leon Hanna, the other judges of this year’s award are: Stephanie Frerich, executive editor at publisher Simon & Schuster; Jorma Ollila, former chair of Royal Dutch Shell and Nokia; and...
...Notable business books include The Founders by Jimmy Soni (Simon & Schuster, February)....
...(FT, FT) News round-up German parliament to open full inquiry into Wirecard collapse (FT) Singapore GIC leads $3.4bn deal for Reliance telecom towers (Nikkei Asian Review) Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong faces...
...A third of sales of books by Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series of thrillers, were “deep backlist” — equivalent to Swift’s masters....
...The last album I bought was by Rickie Lee Jones, who started out singing in bars and coffee houses, and always sounds so sophisticated....
...Floridian Brian Lee Hitchens and his wife Erin subscribed to Covid hoax claims, eschewing precautions. Erin fell ill, dying at only 46, and Brian has since implored others not to make their mistake....
...Their interactions, eager on his side, surly on hers, are described in alternating chapters of Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed (Simon & Schuster, RRP£7.99)....
...The Library Book , by Susan Orlean, Atlantic Books, RRP£20/Simon & Schuster, RRP$28 Orlean, author of the bestselling The Orchid Thief, tells the story of the Los Angeles Public Library and the fire that...
...professor of practice at Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and author of ‘The Billionaire Raj’ Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Haegee Lee, brilliantly made up, sings the old Sandman, Christina Gansch the gleaming Dew Fairy....
...These brief lives (plus a reappraisal of General Robert E Lee) help the authors challenge leadership myths, including the mistaken idea that leadership is an individual endeavour....
...management editor Leaders: Myth and Reality , by Stanley McChrystal, Jeff Eggers and Jason Mangone, Portfolio Penguin, RRP£14.99/$30, 458 pages Leadership in Turbulent Times , by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster...
...The White Darkness by David Grann, Doubleday/Simon & Schuster, £12.99 As astonishingly affecting as it is engrossing. I read this in two evenings and immediately gave it to my business partner....
...Sara Williams, London Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee, Apollo RRP£18.99/Grand Central Publishing RRP$27 On one level, Pachinko is a simple, timeless story: a young girl falls for a bad guy, gets pregnant, marries...
...A companion book, ‘American Epic’, is published by Simon & Schuster, £20 Photographs: Lo-Max Records Ltd; Maida Vale Music; Getty Images; Collection of John Tefteller and Blues Images; Utsa (Zuma Press)...
...Shakespeare in Swahililand, by Edward Wilson-Lee, William Collins, RRP£20 / FSG, RRP$27 (Sept) A Cambridge lecturer raised in Kenya on how Shakespeare has been read in Africa and beyond....
...Andrew Wilson is the author of ‘Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin’ (Simon & Schuster) Details Andrew Wilson was a guest of Kinloch Lodge, where double rooms cost from £218, including dinner....
...The biggest publishing event of the year was undoubtedly Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee, released to great fanfare in July after having been liberated from a safe-deposit box by the octogenarian Alabama...
...For all the continuing fascination with his work, Lee Alexander McQueen has remained a somewhat mysterious figure in the years since his suicide in February 2010....
...The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, by Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, RRP£20/ $35, 560 pages If you’ve found yourself slipping into dark thoughts...
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