The New Enterprise Programmes In the last 18 months a series of courses have emerged, round the country, for people starting their own businesses. The majority of these have been sponsored by the Training Services Division under their ‘New Enterprise Programme’, and have been based in...

Over the past year, I have been privileged enough to be observing, from very close quarters, eleven separate entrepreneurs starting up in business. The eleventh, incidentally, has been myself. Every week, over a period of three months, individuals have been reporting back on their progress, in...

Self‐expression and business formation are not conventionally associated with each other. One is to do with art or psychology, the other with technique or economics. Yet in reality, the two processes are intimately associated. Business, like life itself, is an evolutionary process. As an...

What part has work to play in a total life style? Conventional economists, now as in the past, tend to answer this question by saying that the purpose of work is to provide the worker with his livelihood in strictly economic terms. Today this view is being questioned and as jobs in paid...

We live in an age of change, unbalanced change. One computer generation succeeds another at the virtual drop of a hat. No sooner have we digested the silicon‐chip than our appetites are whetted with bio‐technology. The rate of technological progress, in the industrialised world is quite...

In management, psychology, science and technology, we are becoming more conscious of networks and less blinkered by hierarchies. Charles Handy's four cultures based upon the ‘web’ and the ‘net’, as well as the ‘role’ and the ‘person’ — have extended managerial awareness....

In my article on the New World of Work I alluded to three stages of business development and to their implications for work and employment. Via the ‘creative re‐integration of business’, I also conjured up a new world of business, where ‘intrapreneurs’ and ‘enablers’ came together...

In two previous articles on “The New World of Work” (ICT, November 1982) and “The Creative Re‐integration of Business” (ICT, May 1983) I sketched out an agenda for business, tomorrow. Armed with what seemed to me home truths, I ventured across the Atlantic, to attend a conference on...