CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - SEPTEMBER 23: Joe Mansueto, founder and CEO of Morningstar, at the company's headquarters in Chicago Monday, September 23, 2013. (Peter Wynn Thompson for the Financial Times)
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Joe Mansueto, Morningstar CEO

The fund rating group’s founder gives staff leeway but keeps control

Business education

The Starr-Tupps, an entrepreneur family that ends up acting as a family business
US family businesses have an image problem
– Emma Boyde
Founder and CEO Kirk Hawkins in front of a show model ICON A5 aircraft at ICON's offices and show room in Los Angeles. ©Ann Johansson
A Stanford student seized on US regulations that created a new category of private flight to launch a business
– Adam Palin
A ranking of the top 70 MiM programmes, plus analysis and features

Distraction beats doctors for back pain

Germany, strong enough to carry southern Europe on its back, stays home at the slightest twinge

Clodoaldo Silva Santos, auxiliar de servi os gerais do Senado, mostra desenho que fez no carpete do Plen rio.
©Janine Moraes

Carpet cleaning artist

Clodoaldo Silva creates designs with a vacuum cleaner

How to leave well

‘Don’t settle scores and don’t rubbish the organisation’

Digital coffin

Dealing with the digital afterlife

Services that help prepare your electronic legacy

Sonos Play 1

Sonos opens a door to wireless house music

A cost-effective way to build a whole-house system or expand your current one

Astrologer

Financial astrologers gaze at stock markets in the stars

The practice has benefited from the failings of conventional methods

Business Life: Bank school illustration

Bankers back in the classroom

Banks are retraining staff to try to change corporate culture

Who owns English in a global market?

Are the rules set by people who grew up speaking the language or those who learnt it later?

‘Focus’, by Daniel Goleman

In order to excel, the author urges us to pay attention to what distracts us

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