Andrew Hill

Take Note is coming! My book on how shorthand, a 2,000-year workplace technology, can help us reclaim our ideas from AI and boost brainpower. Available from @profilebooks.bsky.social in November. Pre-order now 📝 #TakeNoteBook profilebooks.com/work/take-no...

As a regular speaker at (London) conferences, I endorse this message from @pilitaclark.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/b39b0ed3-e...

“GenAI shares a few traits with consultants. Both are ubiquitous, both embed themselves in business & both ingest information from elsewhere & sell it back to users as tailored solutions to specific questions.” The FT View on new AI challenges to consultants’ model as.ft.com/r/c5b2cf77-8...

For the UK’s many family businesses, there’s a special cruelty in the government’s combining of death and taxes in a single measure. My latest column on families’ continuing fight for inheritance tax relief (also includes the history of shortbread) as.ft.com/r/5e76fb43-4...

📚 The FT and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year shortlist is here! 1873 — Liaquat Ahamed Off the Scales — Aimee Donnellan The Infinity Machine — Sebastian Mallaby Project Maven — Katrina Manson Blood Will Flow — Alex Perry Prophecy — Carissa Véliz www.ft.com/content/d0b2... #BBYA26

The FT loves fitness trackers - but there are some potential side-effects: “Some users’ cult-like dedication to hitting their goals (and bragging about it) could take a toll on their overall health, not to mention the patience of their friends” as.ft.com/r/ba3f54be-f...

📝 Good luck to everyone sitting the @nctj.bsky.social shorthand exam today! Shorthand still beats any app for speed, security and on-deadline transcription, IMO. My new book on the past, present and future of the ”winged art” is out 5 Nov: profilebooks.com/work/take-no... #TakeNoteBook #shorthand

“Everything I do, I think, can I make content out of it?” - first in an excellent new FT series on the thriving (and, frankly, exhausting) creator economy, by @emmavj.bsky.social and @danielthomasldn.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/882ead14-6... How to make it as a digital creator

“Nobody should have to point out the returns on the effort needed to cook a meal for, attend a live performance with, or make love to, another human. Yet this is the lonely online world where many now live.” The FT View - in praise of friction-maxxing as.ft.com/r/b4878314-5...

In volatile times, what does it take to occupy the CEO hot seat? I asked the heads of four big executive search firms what skills boards are seeking from future leaders and how to assess them as.ft.com/r/f14c0faf-c... #leadership

Fifteen authors - including three former winners - are up for the FT Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award. The longlist is here www.ft.com/content/d8f7... #BBYA26 #BusinessBooks

The FT View on the “summer of Homer” and our “implicit tribute to one of the greatest poems of all time” as.ft.com/r/3c0a8a5d-5... Why Homer will outlast us all

“We should be encouraging our children to aim for the stars, but they may need to reframe their target” - my latest FT column on childhood career dreams as.ft.com/r/aad07629-b... Career satisfaction in an uncertain world? Dream on

“We should be encouraging our children to aim for the stars, but they may need to reframe their target” - my latest FT column on childhood career dreams as.ft.com/r/aad07629-b... Career satisfaction in an uncertain world? Dream on

Stop feeding my cat! ft.trib.al/PtMUwO5 #FTEdit

Lord help us if voice-activated AI is being trained on the nonsense spouted by its own promoters as.ft.com/r/746587db-8... Talk, don’t type: Big Tech bets AI’s future will be spoken

Introducing management by mammoth tooth - interesting profile of Novo Nordisk’s new boss by Aaron Kirchfeld and Aanu Adeoye as.ft.com/r/4b01a383-e... ‘Arrogance kills’: Novo chief injects risk-taking into Ozempic maker

Delighted to see my award-winning book #Ruskinland back in the Kindle store, thanks to @pallasathene.co.uk (hardback also still available via all good bookshops). The perfect introduction to the life and ideas of polymath John Ruskin www.amazon.co.uk/Ruskinland-J...

“Soft-pedalling of gender targets for the executive pipeline could undermine wider efforts to improve the lot of female employees, such as narrowing the pay gap or encouraging flexible working” - my column on how the “Trump effect” is setting back corporate diversity as.ft.com/r/cf99e256-2...

Ben Franklin said we should share our inventions “freely and generously”. Silicon Valley should give thanks; instead it sues. The FT View on the latest scrap in the war for talent between Apple and OpenAI as.ft.com/r/2de15b18-a...

Employers are realising they can’t do without entry-level, AI-native young people - but if AI is doing the grunt work, how will the juniors ever learn to be seniors? My FT analysis of the changing shape of early careers as.ft.com/r/d7e1b744-2...

“The days of ‘let a thousand flowers bloom’, tech for the sake of tech, are gone” - emmavj.bsky.social and I on how employers pushed staff to tokenmaxx, then changed their minds as.ft.com/r/f0bc9862-b...

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

“VW does not need more decision makers; it needs more sense-makers” - my FT column on why companies everywhere need leaders who can improvise in uncertain times, as the late, great Karl Weick advised as.ft.com/r/1235df54-e...

You may hope that AI spells the end of self-help books but it’ll take more than the most powerful technology ever devised to kill off the genre, concludes @emmavj.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/0b28cf06-3... ChatGPT moved my cheese: AI is unsettling the self-help shelf

Carol Shanahan is determined to turn Port Vale into “the best-run football club in the EFL”, a place where “humanity is prioritised, whereas I think in a lot of football, it’s not”. My interview with one of football’s few female owners #FTWomen www.ft.com/content/0e9d...

My pick of the best business books of 2026 so far (NB as always, I’ve left the tech books to colleague @johnthornhill.bsky.social ) as.ft.com/r/7f69463d-b... Best summer books of 2026: Business #BusinessBooks

Real Madrid’s Pérez and SpaceX’s Musk are “playing a dangerous game at the place where emotion and cold investment calculation overlap”. My latest FT column as.ft.com/r/f6d3c7f3-6... Real Madrid and the dangers of mixing fans and finance

"This is a thankless moment for any established carmaker to launch a new vehicle" - the FT View on the lessons from the launch of Ferrari's all-electric Luce as.ft.com/r/7b868611-f...

🏆 The #BrackenPrize for Young Authors is back, supported by FT & Standard Chartered. If you're under 35 with an original business book idea, enter by 30 Sept. Winner £15,000; 2 runners-up £2,000 each, plus a masterclass and invitation to the award dinner brackenprize.live.ft.com

"Apart from breathing a sigh of relief that Musk’s plans to inhabit their planet are now a lower priority, what would a Martian beamed down to Wall Street make of the SpaceX IPO?" The FT View as.ft.com/r/f7111f7b-4...

A "profound and often tragic" story of language extinction and preservation - my FT review of @sophiasgaler.bsky.social's beautiful and moving new book as.ft.com/r/0eaf8f40-d...

“If you don’t win, it’s good to know that your money has gone somewhere” - @stephistacey.ft.com and I talked to CEO Andria Vidler about the challenge of reviving the National Lottery as.ft.com/r/2bd9e69b-7...

'If you know Heart of Darkness, I feel like I did a bit of the journey down the river and got to see how our modern financial system works, up close' - Eric "Lean Startup" Ries talks to me about the horrors he discovered while writing his new book Incorruptible as.ft.com/r/6353d07a-d...

New research suggests family company employees are less intelligent than their counterparts elsewhere, held back by a ‘surname ceiling’ - my column why family companies aren’t as great as everyone thinks as.ft.com/r/3037c8ac-4...

Meet the art schools designing Champions League posters for Paris Saint-Germain www.nytimes.com/athletic/725...

'A powerful if one-sided case that wealthy elites have over centuries conspired with their managers to suggest that “there is no alternative” to market fundamentalism.' My FT review of Control Science by Henry Snow as.ft.com/r/e4fa99a2-b...

'As machined “thought leadership” overwhelms our inboxes and social media, AI will start learning from itself, homogenising all prose into grey slop' - the FT View on the dangers, and benefits, of AI-written prose as.ft.com/r/79a4316e-6...

Inviting AI to the boardroom table once “seemed very Star Trekkie” , but now directors are asking ‘should we appoint a bot?’ @aarmstrongsays.bsky.social and I look into the trend as.ft.com/r/1086167f-1...

“Corporate boards have deduced that greater bulk is worth buying. Is it?” The FT View on record-breaking ‘megadeals’ - what should bidders learn from the last record year, 2015, which brought us, among others, M&A dud Kraft Heinz? as.ft.com/r/53c839cd-8...

“By delegating part of his role to a machine, Mark Zuckerberg raises the question of what CEOs actually do, and how much of it is time well spent.” My FT column on Meta building an AI Zuckerberg — the reverse of “management by walking around”: as.ft.com/r/639f232a-f...