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Wannabe prime ministers are nakedly ambitious to run the UK, but why? That is the burning question

As Starmer, Burnham, Streeting, Rayner, Polanski and Farage line up, I say ambition for power is no bad thing. It’s what they would do with it that counts, says author Stefan Stern

The Guardian - UK

One way or another, it’s time to stick up for Keir Starmer and the art of the big, fat U-turn

As with so many things, Margaret Thatcher is to blame for making the obstinacy brand a given in our politics. It hasn’t done us any good, says writer and autor Stefan Stern

The Guardian - UK

To the CEOs who’ve joined Trump’s fight against diversity, I say this: you’re making a big mistake

Ditching DEI initiatives will curry favour in the Oval Office. It will also alienate the workforces bosses rely on, says author Stefan Stern

The Guardian - UK

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Smashing the girlboss myths: how women are doing ambition on their own terms

Women who make it have always had to hustle harder. But a new generation is claiming the power to be flexible about their ambitions. Can they really ‘have it all’?

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak’s last election debate: their final pitch assessed by experts

The BBC has hosted the final head-to-head debate between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer with eight days to go until election day. Here, academic experts help us decipher the two men’s claims about each other, defences of their own records – and the disputes that at…

The Conversation

The world has changed. So why do businessmen still think they can harass women at work parties?

Trade bodies are setting out rules to avoid ‘unacceptable’ behaviour, but part of the problem is how we view work itself, says author Stefan Stern

The Guardian - UK

The cries from Britain’s struggling CEOs are growing louder – how can they survive on a mere £4.4m a year?

There are fears in the City of an exodus of bosses to the US, where they reckon they’ll be paid the big bucks they surely deserve, says the author Stefan Stern

The Guardian - UK

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Is AI more creative than the human brain? I doubt it – and I definitely want humans to stay in charge

Businesses keep trying to prove AI’s superior creativity, but haven’t proved it can compete with human inspiration, says writer Stefan Stern

The Guardian - UK

Perhaps it’s time to admit it: drinking at work is an ugly hangover from the past

Booze still runs deep in Britain’s workplace culture. At last bosses are being urged to think hard about its role, says the writer Stefan Stern

The Guardian - UK

The perk-cession is here. You lose free food and laundry, but you could have a more satisfying life?

With fewer add-on goodies to offer, firms may have to think about workplace culture and a better work/life balance, says author Stefan Stern

The Guardian - UK

Britain's leadership crisis: 'We need to drop the ego'

A day after declaring she was "a fighter not a quitter", Liz Truss resigned, becoming the shortest-serving British prime minister in history. With the UK now poised to have its fifth leader in six years, we discuss the leadership crisis with political writer, author and leadership specialist Stefan Stern. He…

France 24

Politicians, business titans, hear this: we don’t need any more of your ‘disruption’

Beloved by policy wonks and embraced this week by Liz Truss, what began as dry business theory has become the plague of our lives, says author Stefan Stern

The Guardian - UK

Exclusive: Leaked salary data show huge pay disparities at Twitter

The company pays some employees as much as 225 percent more than those in the same role, depending on where they're based.

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‘If you work hard and succeed, you’re a loser’: can you really wing it to the top?

Forget the spreadsheets and make it up as you go along – that’s the message of leaders from Elon Musk to Boris Johnson. But is acting on instinct really a good idea?

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Was Boris Johnson at work when he partied? Can anything he does be called work?

The prime minister’s denial of breaking Covid rules rests on what exactly he gets up to in the office and elsewhere, says author Stefan Stern

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