Philip Kogan obituary
Founder of the publisher Kogan Page, one of the first companies to focus on business and management titles
“Disruption is back with a vengeance” declares a headline on the website of the publisher Kogan Page, above such titles as The Post-Truth Business and Human/Machine – not “sexy” ones that adorn charts or grace windows, but the sort of books that established Kogan Page as Britain’s foremost publisher of business books.
“Disruption” was a word close to the heart of Philip Kogan, the co-founder of the company that bears his name, for Kogan, who has died aged 92, was in the best sense a disruptor: a scholarship boy born in the Depression, who grew up knowing the value of education and gave up a career in research and development when, at his annual appraisal, he was shown a graph plotting out his career to age 40.
