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Michael Skapinker

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Michael Skapinker is an FT contributing editor. He was an FT reporter, senior editor and award-winning columnist for 34 years. Among the positions he held were FT Weekend editor and management editor.
  • Monday, 12 January, 2026
    Technology
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    If employers want AI to transform work, they should pay attention to history’s technological flops

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  • Thursday, 23 October, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    Jobseekers of the future: approach AI with scepticism and dexterity

    A key skill for the future will be understanding what AI can — and cannot — do

    A woman uses a laptop displaying the OpenAI ChatGPT website with the prompt "Ask ChatGPT anything" on the screen.
  • Saturday, 16 August, 2025
    ObituaryStephanie Shirley
    Stephanie Shirley, IT pioneer and philanthropist, 1933-2025

    As founder of one of Britain’s pathfinding technology companies, she paved the way for women in the field

    A woman in a white suit stands at a dockside
  • Thursday, 14 August, 2025
    Leadership
    Chief executives can just be ‘good enough’

    No leader can do it all. Recognising what is sufficient can be liberating.

    Montage image of a hand holding a puzzle piece that fits into a row of uniform other puzzle pieces
  • Thursday, 7 August, 2025
    Special ReportLessons in Leadership
    How can businesses harness the benefits of older workers?

    Having different generations working together can help them bring out the best in each other

    llustration of four silhouetted hikers ascending a steep hill. Each holds a glowing phone and focuses on the screen, while the last hiker also carries a walking stick
  • Sunday, 23 February, 2025
    Recruitment
    Graduates face an uphill battle to employment

    University leavers should have benefited from a tighter labour market. Why are so many still searching for a job?

    Montage image of a woman in a graduation cap and gown, a phone screen reading ‘job application’, a laptop reading ‘CV’ and a line and bar chart in the background
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Working It21 min listen
    What I wish I’d known when I started my career

    Isabel and colleagues share workplace advice they wish they’d known earlier

  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Working It20 min listen
    Best of: Has ‘retirement’ had its day?

    For some, less work may be better than no work

  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    Work & Careers
    The dangers of staking your career on the company’s rising star

    Succession planning at JPMorgan Chase offers lessons for executives hoping to land the top job

    The JPMorgan Chase building on Park Avenue, New York
  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2024
    Working It15 min listen
    What can I do when my employees are afraid to speak up?

    Managers who want staff to speak up have to be ready to listen

  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
    Management
    The perils of speaking up at work too often deter staff from voicing concerns

    Boeing is one employer where workers are still hesitant to come forward with problems

    FT montage of a hand placed in front of a megaphone to silence it
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    Leadership
    Facts or feelings? Managers need both

    Data matters to business but must be presented in a way that engages employees

    A see-saw with a heart at one end and a brain balanced on the other
  • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
    Working It20 min listen
    Has ‘retirement’ had its day?

    For some, less work may be better than no work

  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    Retirement
    It’s time we stopped talking about retirement

    The number of over-65s working is rising as older people take an active role in the world

    Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon, who is playing guitar, stand in front of microphones
  • Monday, 17 July, 2023
    Leadership
    Listen and you might learn something

    Sometimes staying quiet is the best way to gather insights and build relationships

    Meryl Streep stands in front the desk where Anne Hathaway is sitting in a still image from the film The Devil Wears Prada
  • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
    House & Home
    Ally Pally at 150: celebrating London’s ‘people’s palace’

    Gutted by fire twice and often near financial ruin, Alexandra Palace is a monument to Victorian ambition

    People in Alexandra Palace’s Great Hall for markets and birthday festivities, May 27
  • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
    Working It16 min listen
    How to plan for the next crisis

    Managers put companies at risk when they don’t plan for the worst-case scenario

  • Monday, 3 April, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    A Brilliant Commodity — shining a light on the Jewish diamond connection

    A flawed history of the tricontinental diamond trade focuses on Amsterdam’s Jodenbuurt

  • Sunday, 19 March, 2023
    Leadership
    From SVB to the BBC: why did no one see the crisis coming?

    Managers can put organisations at risk when they fail to plan for the worst-case scenario

    Illustration of four smiling people in a rowboat all pulling together, unaware they are about to tip over the edge of a waterfall
  • Sunday, 18 September, 2022
    FT SeriesLeading in a crisis
    Refugee Council’s Enver Solomon: ‘Leadership is something you’re constantly trying to improve’

    The chief executive talks about his route to the top and running the charity during an ‘extraordinary’ time

    Enver Solomon wearing glasses, blazer and open necked shirt, stands in the road outside his house with his hands in his trouser pockets
  • Monday, 15 August, 2022
    Management
    Generation game: managing age cohorts requires subtlety

    At work the tensions within each group are as great as those between them

    Four co-workers in the creative industry laugh as they sit around a table
  • Friday, 22 July, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    How Minds Change by David McRaney — the power of persuasion

    If you really want to shift long-held beliefs, you have to listen, reveals a new book on the science of opinion

    Two men getting married
  • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
    Working It
    Make your next meeting ‘tactical’

    Plus, how hybrid work affects women and the limited success of skills boot camps

  • Monday, 6 June, 2022
    Management
    How to be a good middle manager

    They are a vital bridge between a company’s bosses and its staff — and the best ones are now needed more than ever

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    Leadership
    How to handle a narcissist in the workplace

    The behaviour of the late publishing magnate Robert Maxwell provides an object lesson in the psychology of extreme power

    Robert Maxwell reclining at his desk at the Mirror while on the telephone in 1987
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