Business at a Crossroads

TOM LLOYD is a management writer and author. He is a former editor of Financial Weekly and Management Today, was founding editor of Gemini Consulting's quarterly management journal Transformation and wrote the 'Working Brief' column in The Sunday Telegraph for several years. He has written five books, including Managing Knowhow, with Karl-Erik Sveiby (Bloomsbury 1987) and The 'nice' company (Bloomsbury 1990). He was also the co-author of the successful A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom and A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom: The Roadmap with Peninah Thomson and Jacey Graham (Palgrave 2005, 2008).

• Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: What Ails Big Business What People Want A Feudal Heritage The Steam-Age Corporation The Decadent Corporation Not So Much Greed The Myth Of Leadership PART II: Reforming Big Business Leaderless Competitors The Adaptive Challenge Size And Shape Corporate Reformation

'Tom Lloyd provides a sparkling explosion of shibboleths and myths about the corporate sector in the course of a coruscating attack on excessive executive remuneration.' - John Kay, economist and author of The Long and the Short of It'