Category: Opinion

To grow and innovate, organisations have to come up with creative ideas. At the employee level, creativity results from a combination of expertise, motivation, and thinking skills.

As Calm People’s clients have grown both in number and in size we are increasingly in discussions with, and considering the implications of, large scale delivery of projects.

In the next few days the BBC are conducting a full disciplinary hearing to decide the fate of the lead host of its highest grossing programme Top Gear following a ‘fracas’ between the larger than life Jeremy Clarkson and another member of staff. However when what seems to be a easy to decide case is made somewhat more difficult given that potentially replacing your key staff member could well cost over £50M in lost revenue what would you do?

To secure long-term survival in a complex and volatile world you need to develop an organisation with the ability to collectively adapt and continuously improve as one synchronised entity. Better information technology and more efficient structures for keeping daily efforts aligned with long-term goals won’t be enough.

Losing sleep over how you’re going to close the next deal?

As the number of coworking spaces in the UK continues to grow, what major benefits are tech startups gaining from these environments?

Series 12 of Dragons’ Den has come to a close, and yet again has provided us with some more of the brilliant pitches that we love, and plenty of the classic too-far-outside-of-the-box ideas that we love even more.

We spoke to some of the UKs leading entrepreneurs from around the UK to get their immediate reaction to what the Chancellor announced in his last budget before the General Election.

With the amount owed to businesses in late payments standing at £46.1 billion the issue of managing a healthy cash flow and enforcing credit control is a significant one.

The last in the series and Duncan Bannatyne’s final episode of Dragons’ Den is upon us, and this week brought to us suits, energy drinks, and life-saving pieces of material.

Over the past 30 years, working habits have been completely transformed. Technology has been the most recognisable driver of this change – equipping employees with the tools to become more effective and efficient, but bringing with it new demands and pressures that just didn’t exist two or three decades ago.

Simon Devonshire, Entrepreneur in Residence @BISgovUK and Director at Wayra Europe talks about why consumer behaviour has changed.

As bosses and managers we can relate to how underperforming employees exhaust us while outperforming staff energise and power the business to the next level.