The MTP Business Learning Blog

This blog is produced by MTP for senior professionals highlighting relevant and interesting books and articles on business, finance and strategy, and the opportunity to comment on them. It also contains news of MTP and its clients and, from time to time, extracts from MTP publications.

Thursday 22 January 2015

We have the technology and the brains…

'We have the technology and the brains…'  Daily Telegraph 20 January

An interesting article in the Daily Telegraph today by Matt Mellor.

He is the MD of a medium sized enterprise, having previously been an academic at Oxford University until he left for industry in 2005. He argues that talented engineers and scientists need training in business skills.

Unsurprisingly this struck a chord with us at MTP.

Tuesday 20 January 2015

Where Boards Fall Short

Where Boards Fall Short by Dominic Barton and Mark Wiseman, Harvard Business Review, January – February 2015

There has been quite a lot of comment about the role of Boards of Directors over the past year and there is an interesting piece in the January/February edition of the Harvard Business Review. The authors are the global managing director of McKinsey and the CEO of a major investment board, so both clearly have significant experience of the role of Boards and their contribution.