Purpose – This paper aims to look at the leadership lessons which can be learnt from Scottish soccer coach, Alex Ferguson. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the characteristics and methods of Alex Ferguson's leadership style and how managers in business can apply the wider...

Findings – When Jim Collins and Jerry Porras were researching the early history of some of America's greatest corporations for their book Built to Last, they kept coming across a common denominator: Peter Drucker.

Findings – Few readers of this journal will not be familiar with the life and ideas of Peter Drucker. He has been compared to, amongst others, Bagehot, Bastiat, Darwin, Hayek, Mendel, Mises, Newton, Schumpeter, Shaw and Tocqueville. Of many other distinctions, his first book, The End of...

Purpose In purchasing field, the author would like to demonstrate that purchasing performance can be improved by something else than hard skills. The soft skills have at present an important role to reach the objectives as a buyer, and more focus should be on that aspect of skills. The author...