Category: Opinion

There are some entrepreneurs who start a business with the sole intention of running it for years to come. Others have a medium to long term aim of selling it. There is no right or wrong way, but if you are an entrepreneur thinking of an exit, it has to be done properly.

When Formula 1 team-mates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg collided at the Belgian Grand Prix, the championship fight between the Mercedes pair broke out into open warfare.

You come back from vacation and start your game of catch-up. This is an especially challenging game if you’re a senior leader. You have hundreds, maybe thousands of emails, a backlog of voicemails, and a to-do list that doubled or tripled in length while you were away.

In his latest article, Professor Graham Jones from Top Performance Consulting, reflects on the dangers that ‘accidental leaders’ can pose to your business and why many of them are accidents waiting to happen.

The average British holiday maker will return to more than 800 emails, nearly three hours of missed phone calls and almost six pieces of office gossip.

All too often we hear ‘don’t shoot the messenger’ when something bad has been conveyed to an unsuspecting and ultimately disappointed audience.

There seems to be wide support for the idea that we are living in an “age of complexity”, which implies that the world has never been more intricate.

A referendum on the question of Scottish independence will take place on 18 September 2014. Carl Hasty, Director of international payments specialist Smart Currency Business, outlines the currency implications that would follow a majority ‘Yes’ vote.

A common misconception held by businesses is that universities are academic bubbles with little relationship or relevance to the real world.

What do you need to find and develop within yourself to be successful?

There are some true inventors in the Den this episode, including a returning entrepreneur with a new outdoor space saving device, a golfing duo with a new take on the traditional tee, and a designer who has flipped the conventional umbrella on its head.

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got.”

HMRC’s property transaction report for the first full quarter since the implementation of the 2012 Finance Bill reveals tax relief losses to UK Commercial property owners of an estimated £100m.

If the previous Millennium could be defined by innovations created by the means of physical labour- it is most likely that this millennium will be defined by innovations of the mind.

The ability to keep your wits in a crisis isn’t a character trait; it’s a skill that you can learn in minutes.