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...The elegant review by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson of Paddy Manning’s book The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch (Life & Arts, November 19) refers to an idea that Lachlan Murdoch’s siblings...
...Former Bank of England governor Lord King has been in the news a lot recently, flogging his book and taunting his successors. What’s his favourite football team?...
...Family businesses have strange dynamics, particularly around the selection of an heir. At least Oedipus didn’t have to win his father’s backing as his named successor....
...Likewise the gamer and the Instagrammer are heirs to the patience player and stamp collector of 150 years ago. Another continuity is the anxiety that all this innocuous activity has prompted....
...I was viewed as an entrepreneur, the creator not the heir, which is easier to bear. It means you own your successes and failures....
...Two exhibitions marking the centenary of the artist’s death in 1917 have just opened in Paris: Kiefer Rodin, the Musée Rodin’s first encounter with a living artist, and Rodin: L’exposition du centenaire...
...Taylor, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh … were kind of heroes to Christopher Booker and Paul Foot and myself. We wanted to read all their books and know all about them....
...David Sokol – widely seen as the likely successor to Warren Buffett at the helm of the billionaire investor’s Berkshire Hathaway firm, has unexpectedly resigned, reports the FT....
...Still, it is fitting that the resignation of David Sokol, widely considered the heir apparent at Mr Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, came only hours after the appointment of James Murdoch, Rupert’s son, as...
...David Sokol has unexpectedly resigned from Berkshire Hathaway, the investment company run by Warren Buffett, depriving the sage of Omaha of a top lieutenant widely seen as his probable successor....
...We know none of his children is a potential successor. Mr Buffett has spoken against privilege passing down the generations....
...The question facing Warren Buffett over the surprise departure of David Sokol, his expected heir at Berkshire’s helm, will probably echo in the cavernous space of Omaha’s sports arena where thousands of...
...Putin succeeded Yeltsin during a similarly opaque process, known to insiders as Operation Successor, in which Yeltsin chose Putin as his anointed heir and abdicated in his favour on New Year’s Eve 1999,...
...In the October issue of the Harvard Business Review Anne Mulcahy, former CEO of Xerox, described how hard she had found it to “give up power and accountability” to Ursula Burns, her preferred successor....
...At a meeting in the Italian town of L’Aquila last year, the leaders of the G8 pledged to enhance global food security to prevent a repetition of the 2007-08 shortages....
...He was a safe choice – widely respected as the architect of India’s economic liberalisation but without a political base that might threaten the prospects of her son Rahul, an MP and heir apparent to a Nehru-Gandhi...
...It is the second time in a decade that Alain Mérieux, chief executive of the French medical diagnostic equipment group, has lost a son and intended successor in tragic circumstances....
...THE MARCH by E.L....
...He chose Sabanci as his successor ahead of his brothers and other male family members....
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