If this election is about two things it’s fairness and change. The Labour party have adopted fairness, the Conservatives change and the Lib Dems sat on the fence and used both. What a cop out.
Category: Opinion
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
Being popular doesn’t make it right
Call it a SuBo effect if you like, the surge in popularity of Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems is a disaster.
David Cameron was right “Put down the BlackBerry”
In all the fuss over mounting debt and sneaky give-away’s, Claire King thinks that David Cameron made a crucial point in his riposte immediately as Alistair Darling sat down, which I fear will be overlooked by many Budget commentators.
Duncan Bannatyne: Why Non-Doms have an ‘unfair’ advantage in business
Would you give your customers your products if they paid one of your competitors for them? Then why do we allow people to live in the UK, receive public sector services from the government, but pay for them in the form of taxes to another country?
Women are better at interviews but fear of maternity means they loose out
According to bosses women perform better at interviews, have better presentation, communication, motivation skills, understand companies and cultures better, are more thorough, affable and better able to balance multiple tasks and yet according to 42.7% of senior management surveyed by TheLadders.co.uk, they will not get the top job because they fear that women will leave to have children.
Women don’t need to act like men to succeed in the Boardroom
Following the latest reports that women are still under-represented in big businesses, a leading career accelerator is urging women to stick to their guns and not resort to traditional ‘command and control’ behaviour just to get ahead.
UK’s most powerful companies are Twitter shy
With Twitter expected to serve its 10 billionth tweet on Friday, 5 March, research has found that just a fraction of the FTSE 100 have got on board with Twitter. Just 16 of the UK’s top 100 companies are using the social networking site to chat with customers. The sidelining of Twitter as an informal communication channel could well be costing them dearly – 20 per cent of ‘tweets’ contain a reference to a product or brand, according to metrics released last week*.
Do entrepreneurs & enterprise get a rough deal in the media?
In the late 1980’s, Clive Woodcock was about the only journalist reporting on small business issues through his column in Friday’s Guardian. His solitary status reflected the lack of media interest in the subject; the term entrepreneur hadn’t been widely adopted, nor had our work culture embraced the positive options of self-employment.
Rebuilding trust should be top business resolution in 2010
After a difficult year for many top brands, from ongoing strike disputes at British Airways and Royal Mail to the latest Eurostar snow crisis, businesses are being reminded that rebuilding customer trust and loyalty should be their top priority in the New Year.
Lord Sugar sets the record straight
Lord Sugar has hit back at the critics who claim that he is “out of touch with SMEs”, insisting that he is “passionately committed” to helping small firms and that SMEs who complained about being refused loans were “moaners” who were living in “Disneyland”.
Use Christmas to re-energise for 2010
The season to be merry is upon us as we rush to prepare for a few days off work. Then comes the strain of too much food, drink or financial worries and Christmas is anything but relaxing. Hoping to promote Christmas cheer in tough economic times, Apprentice star, Claire Young has launched the ‘Balancing Britain Campaign’, working with Chinese health and wellbeing organisation Lishi in a bid to encourage the nation to switch off over Christmas.
The Government is acting like a ‘sat nav with no postcode’
Entrepreneur Rik Hellewell, owner of the UK’s largest oven-valeting franchise network, Ovenu, has slammed the Government for acting like a ’sat nav with no postcode’ saying they would do well to follow the lead of their counterparts in the southern hemisphere.
The UK’s ‘excessive’ boardroom habits are a complete waste of time
Charlie Mullins has hit out at the ‘excessive’ boardroom habits of UK businesses, saying firms need to adopt a ‘less talk more work’ attitude if they are to survive the downturn.
Leading entrepreneur slams ‘greedy bankers’ over plans to abolish cheques
Charlie Mullins, managing director of leading independent plumbing firm, Pimlico Plumbers, has slammed controversial plans by British banks, which could see cheques abolished by 2018.
Michelle Dewberry: failing to evolve your business is planning to fail
Gone are the days when we could all set our watches by the clatter of the letterbox. The reality now is that despite the rising cost of mail, the service that was once at the core of British industry is now a thing of the past. The recent postal strikes have cost UK businesses an estimated £1.25 billion, money that companies can ill afford during the country’s longest recession. Whether you are a sole trader, an SME or a company who employs hundreds of staff, each and every one of us has been affected by it.
