Lingfield College Business

If you read this and it makes you think, let me know: From fintech to skincare: Meet Britain's brightest female business leaders under 35   Kate Bassett     Andrew Saunders 23 JUNE 2019 • 7:00AM Follow   “Does your man work here?” 29-year-old Diane Farrell is often asked as she arrives at the Talisker Distillery on the Isle of Skye, one of the most renowned Scotch whisky distilleries in the world. “No,” she replies. “I’m the boss.” F arrell heads up the entire site, which produces around three million litres of alcohol and attracts more than 75,000 visitors each year. Unusual in the male-dominated whisky industry, she also leads an all-female management team. Farrell is used to surprising people. After completing a master’s degree in chemical engineering at the University of Strathclyde then an IBD diploma in distilling, where she was awarded the Simpson’s Malt Award for achieving the highest grade, Farrell joined drin...

THE politically correct view of people management is that it is mainly about team spirit and co-operation. Meanwhile, the idea that companies are run as dictatorships seems repellent to decent citizens in the 21st century. A recent book, called Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Co-operators on Earth, argues that mankind has advanced thanks to the productivity that comes with elaborate governance institutions and teamwork. The book was self-published by the evolutionary scientist Peter Turchin, who set out to discover why our culture has made mankind so prosperous.  Stephen Pinker makes similar points in The Better Angels of our Nature, where he writes that commerce is one of the five driving forces that have made mankind less violent over the course of history. Commerce is “a positive sum game in which everybody can win; as technological progress allows the exchange of goods and ideas over longer distances and among larger groups of trading partners...