The England football team are perennial underachievers. Every major tournament sees them exit well before the semi-final stages and after every exit there is the usual inquest into why it happened. The usual suspects are tactics (England should have played a 4-3-3 instead of a 4-2-3-1), tired players, unrealistic press expectations, bored players, and injuries to key players. Imagine my shock when I read a Daily Telegraph article at breakfast this morning which blamed England's early exit on market capitalism! Click here to read the article.
Michael Aldous and I had our book The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry published a few weeks ago. You can find out more about it and buy it at Cambridge University Press's website . It is also available at Amazon , Waterstones , and Barnes & Noble . The CEO has already been reviewed in The Sunday Times , The Observer and Financial Times .