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‘We’re gonna drop the ball, Michael’, explained Terry Laybourne, restaurateur and CEO of the 21 Hospitality Group. ‘I’ve got 7 restaurants doing a couple of thousand covers a week. It’s not about what we do if it goes wrong it’s what we do when it does go wrong.’
Whether you are the CEO of the company, or someone elsewhere on the totem pole, your role matters. There are various functions that each member of the team, as well as your customers, should be able to count on you to provide. Everyone is expected to deliver on their responsibilities and come through on promises and commitments made.
Halloween is the perfect time of year to curl up under the blankets on the sofa and watch scary movies under the flickering glow of a creepy pumpkin lantern. But did you know that there are plenty of great business lessons that you can learn from cinema’s spookiest horror films – provided you can muster the courage to look at the screen?
In his latest article for Business Matters, John Ritchie, Chief Executive of digital group risk insurer, Ellipse, discusses the changing role of SME employers in nurturing employee health and financial wellbeing.
The UK loves good food. There is a high demand for new and innovative food products and this need has resulted in the creation of new food startups all across the country. But what does it take to turn a startup into a successful business?
Torches, check. Batteries, check. Spare bottled water in the break room, check. Backup generator, check. Off-site or redundant data centre, check.
As Juan Manuel Fangio exited the chicane before the blind Tabac corner in the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix, he stomped on the brake. It was a counterintuitive reaction for a racing driver exiting a corner — but one that likely saved his life.
As a business person, chances are you are going to have to do a presentation sooner or later. If the thought of composing something from scratch strikes you with fear, Laura Bruce from Toastmasters International has some advice that will make every presentation you create much simpler to master.
Getting your corporate branding right is an essential part of business growth.
It’s true that square foot costs are skyrocketing in London, reaching record levels this year alone along with other major markets around the world. This appears to be a huge problem for the SME community.
As a result of the employment situation in the UK over recent years, many people have decided to take the plunge and go from being employed to running their own business.
Redundancy can a difficult subject for both employer and employee, and there are a number of myths surrounding the subject.
Those that don’t know history are doomed to repeat it? Maybe not, suggests a new study.
Resistance to change is seen as a major challenge to organisational initiatives. According to Sarah Lewis M.Sc. C.Psychol, of Appreciating Change, before we think about how to reduce it, we need to understand why people resist change.
Quit these bad habits and you’ll become massively more resilient instantly.
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