Columns, blogs and opinion from some of the UKs leading business opinion makers and entrepreneurs and small business owners
The recession in the construction sector is old news. Work is difficult to secure and harder to make pay for many SMEs, because of the underlying fragility of the economy. Unfortunately, the present economic climate has exacerbated long- standing difficulties for contractors.
Without a doubt Lady Thatcher was a divisive politician, not least because her mind was so focused and sure that it was right.
I am very, very sad to hear the dreadful news of Lady Thatcher’s passing. I think it is a devastating loss for us all; she is a British icon. I would like to pass my condolences to her family at this very sad time.
Delivering bad news, on-the-job training, announcing staff changes – these are all situations a senior manager may find themselves in. Yet, how many times does a critical message become clouded or coloured or even lost in the aftermath of people’s reactions?
Towards the end of 2012, l was admitted to Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire for heart surgery. I was born with a heart murmur and always knew l might need surgery in later life but never imagined it would happen so soon and so dramatically.
Now we’re heading into the Easter Holiday season, many business owners and salespeople will get the call me back after the Bank Holiday objection, yet fail to deal with it well enough. I’m sure you’ve had people say those words or something similar to you?
It’s been all over the news since the CEO of Yahoo banned it and every blog, article and journalist has an opinion on it – flexible and home working and the question of ‘to trust or not to trust’ employees who wish to utilize this way of working.
As the winter snow flurries are replaced with the symbolic first shoots of spring, many MDs and bosses take the opportunity to put their business and personal lives under the microscope.
Government health minister, Anna Soubry, has said that workers eating lunch at their desks is ‘disgusting’ and they should take a full break to properly enjoy their midday meal instead.
We caught up with Rob Law MBE, the founder and director of Magmatic ltd, the brand behind the much-loved children’s brand Trunki to get his thought on the Budget.
Excellent news about the help for mortgages which in turn supports house building. It should create a major kick start for the housing sector which in turn will create thousands of new jobs.
Let me praise the Chancellor, George Osborne, for being the ‘Champion of Small Business’ and rewarding small firms for their efforts to support the UK’s economic recovery
This week I ran a seminar on the ways businesses can use Linked In as a sales tool to generate leads. It made me think of a situation that happened to me recently, where I was contacted over Linked In by a company that was trying to sell me some video email marketing.
Lord Neuberger, the UK’s most senior judge, recently warned that reforms introduced from April 1 – which will scrap legal aid for family matters including financial issues, residency and contact with children – could undermine the rule of law.
Whilst researching for our Resilience development program, and also when reviewing our Motivation section in various parts of our courses, I picked up a great book and re-read it, cover-to-cover in an evening.
