Andrew Hill

This is a little premature, but I'm delighted to say my book about shorthand, one of the world's oldest workplace technologies, is now available for pre-order ahead of November publication by Profile Books amzn.eu/d/0hGISi10 #TakeNoteBook #shorthand

‘Management consultants often ask clients: “What does success look like?” As war in the Middle East approaches its third week, companies are having to consider the opposite question: “What does failure look like?”’ - the FT View on how war is reshaping business as.ft.com/r/56ba82e3-d82…

Travel is “getting harder for the wrong people”, but “for the right people, I don’t see any impact” - Dubai-based Zubin Karkaria, CEO of VFS, the world’s largest visa processor, unbowed by geopolitical turmoil. Interview by me and Stephanie Stacey as.ft.com/r/8116e003-b7b…

A warm welcome to @StanChart, new partner for the FT Business Book of the Year Award #BBYA26 #BusinessBooks as.ft.com/r/9db1f3fa-afb…

FT Live is returning to Davos for one of the world’s most important weeks — cutting through the noise with sharp insight and big conversations. Join us from 19–23 January. Explore the full schedule of events: tinyurl.com/pbpdu3tf

"Something can be the real deal and still have an investment bubble form around it; in fact, it possibly makes it more likely." Another insightful interview with @stephenwitt, winner of the 2025 FT & Schroders Business Book of the Year Award #BBYA25

In praise of boredom - the FT View about how to cultivate the right type of tedium over the festive period as.ft.com/r/81263669-1ce…

“I work from the moment I wake up until I go to bed. I have zero hobbies. Everything is, number one, take care of family, and then after that, 100 per cent work.” FT Person of the Year: Jensen Huang via @FT as.ft.com/r/a8a5e50c-efa…

It will still be Hollywood, but not as we know it - the FT View on the battle for Warner Bros Discovery and two different plotlines for Tinseltown as.ft.com/r/68aa9566-88e…

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is “totally driven by negative emotion in a way that I have never seen in a CEO before” - my interview with FT/Schroders book award-winner @stephenwitt on the FT Behind the Money podcast open.spotify.com/episode/2xvq5F…

Onward and upward for stairlift maker Stannah, as the family heads upstairs and brings in its first non-family CEOs. My interview with 5th- and 6th-generation Jon and Sam Stannah on success, succession and family values as.ft.com/r/ec8e6647-23a… #leadership

What if “the book could respond to the reader, and, using AI, generate a unique bespoke text that speaks directly to their concerns”? - my interview with FT/Schroders award-winner @stephenwitt on Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the future of books as.ft.com/r/7aa36214-e6e… #BBYA25

Was Jensen Huang lucky? Witt: “If you go into the ocean and you stand in a part nobody stands in, and you throw your net every day for 10 or 11 years, and at the end, you catch the biggest fish anyone’s ever seen, did you get lucky? Maybe. But you also put yourself in a position where you could get lucky — and you were the only one standing there.” #Nvidia $NVDA

Musk’s trillion-dollar payout “floats beyond Neptune, about 17,000 times the distance of a mere moonshot” - my column on why Elon’s out-of-this-world pay targets are as damaging as they are distant as.ft.com/r/3beb41c7-1fd… via @financialtimes

ft.com/content/ee20e7… Stephen Witt wins FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year #BBYA25

And the winner is… The Thinking Machine by Stephen Witt, FT & Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 #BBYA25 ig.ft.com/sites/business…