Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
With age and experience comes wisdom, but all too often in the business world, hubris can come along for the ride too. Subconsciously survivorship and confirmation biases are at work; good decisions are reinforced, and poor ones fall out of the memory – which distorts their real importance.
It’s widely accepted that if you can bring on a Finance Director to help you in business, you should. Having a viable idea for a business doesn’t necessarily mean you know how to run the books – and the analysis, insight and advice an FD can offer your venture will be invaluable.
Capital Gains: the good news/bad news tax. Good news … you’ve made money. Bad news … well, it’s a tax.
In any challenging and fast-paced organisation, it is important to remember that creativity has underpinned some of our greatest achievements. It has helped us treat diseases, find new energy sources and put a human on the moon.
As introduced earlier in this series of articles, the sale of a business is a process with a timeline.
Cashflow is consistently cited as one of the biggest challenges facing SMEs and advice about what to do about it abounds. But, have you ever stopped to consider how to be about it?
When anyone jumps into the world of small business ownership, they are taking a big risk. Due to advancements in technology, marketplaces have become both larger and smaller at the same time, and as a result, have become more competitive.
The festive season is just around the corner, which means it’s not long until the New Year arrives – bringing with it the inevitable dilemma about whether you need to make any resolutions to change your life, or business, for the better.
With change now a constant and ever present part of working life, personal resilience is fast becoming an essential attribute of effective leadership.
If you want to invest your money in smart ways, you may have considered investing in the stock market and purchasing various stocks and shares. But the problem with doing that is the fact that you’re taking a high risk with your money
When changes occur that impact a business such as market developments, a shift in customer demand or technological advancements, a business must behave innovatively in order to adapt.
Supporting employees who are experiencing incidents of bullying, harassment or domestic violence can be a particular challenge for owners and managers of SMEs.
Old security policies and rules often stick around long after they’ve outstayed their welcome. Kyle Wickert, Lead Solution Architect of Product & Deployment of AlgoSec shows how you can ensure they check out and leave, for good
Firing staff is a part of the job of being a manager. It is not the most enjoyable part – but it is most definitely
Javier Peralta, UK country manager at ForceManager, discusses some of the key trends in sales and looks at how they will impact sales teams
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