Columns, blogs and opinion from some of the UKs leading business opinion makers and entrepreneurs and small business owners
When it comes to standing up and being noticed, it’s a well known fact that women face a greater challenge than men. Recent reports have suggested that it may take up to 60 years for women to have equal presence in top positions. Even though there are some excellent female thought leaders out there, it seems that there is still not as many compared to the number of men. So there is no time to lose for more women to be bold, opinionated thought leaders, just like their male counterparts.
For husband and wife teams running companies, the pressures of the economic climate can be further compounded by the challenges of working and living together.
Since the 1980s work experience has provided important early lessons in the realities of employment for countless school pupils.
Corporate Socially Responsibility has predominantly been associated with global conglomerates. It is a common assumption that these multinationals are the primary contributors to the recovery of the economy and therefore are accountable for addressing the issues facing today’s society.
Instagram, named Apple’s app of the year, has quickly become the biggest thing in photograph-based social networking. The photo sharing app has 15 million users and 1 million new users a fortnight. But what does this mean for online brand building?
So the TUC has carried out a survey that has apparently found that two billion hours of overtime was carried out by British workers last year. On top of that, the union says that these extra hours could have resulted in a million extra jobs being created.
One way to raise the profile of your business is to seek opportunities to speak in public. These could be anything from a slot at a lunch time networking group, a joint seminar with a local accountant to a keynote speech at a trade conference. But many so many presentations (and presenters) fail to engage their audience. This article also offers ten tips to help you counteract the possible pitfalls of a poor presentation.
I tempted fate and suffered the consequences. How would I managed without my phone for nearly 24 hours? I dreaded the thought but found out anyway.
Here I discuss the importance of tracking data and gathering information within your business. It then goes on to discuss what data you need and how to use it in order to grow your business.
Over the years I have heard so many people say to me that they do not have the time to write a book and that they cannot afford the cost of publishing it. My response is always, quite simply, you cannot afford not to write your book.
Electricians could be in for a shock as they have moved to the top of the taxman’s targeted campaign list as the Electricians Tax Safe Plan (ETSP) will begin in February 2012 and give an opportunity for electricians and electrical fitters to come forward and declare unpaid tax.
The Autumn Statement was another list of help for business from the Chancellor. It was all good stuff, but again here is nothing in there for Micro Businesses. The Government can’t do anything specifically for us because we don’t officially exist. The only definition that exists is for SMEs, up to 10 employees and €2m turnover.
We need a new definition.
What makes us, or more specifically me, as impatient as I am? Is it technology or genetics? How does modern technology affect how I expect others to behave?
It’s never too late to go back to school and admit that you don’t know what you don’t know. Because, in the words of John F Kennedy, “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other”.
How to make the most of the information you have within your business and how to use it to drive growth. The article covers identifying what information you need and how you need it to be presented and offers some suggested actions. Part two will look at how to use this data.
