Anthony Pearlgood, commercial director of PHS Datashred and chairman of the information destruction section of the BSIA, discusses how irritating office habits can affect the security of your organisation.
Category: Opinion
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
Women Must Be Thought Leaders… or Else…
When it comes to standing up and being noticed, it’s a well known fact that women face a greater challenge than men. Recent reports have suggested that it may take up to 60 years for women to have equal presence in top positions. Even though there are some excellent female thought leaders out there, it seems that there is still not as many compared to the number of men. So there is no time to lose for more women to be bold, opinionated thought leaders, just like their male counterparts.
How to avoid divorce killing the business
For husband and wife teams running companies, the pressures of the economic climate can be further compounded by the challenges of working and living together.
Work Experience is a crucial way to teach employability skills
Since the 1980s work experience has provided important early lessons in the realities of employment for countless school pupils.
The emergence of socially responsible SMEs proves that bigger is not better
Corporate Socially Responsibility has predominantly been associated with global conglomerates. It is a common assumption that these multinationals are the primary contributors to the recovery of the economy and therefore are accountable for addressing the issues facing today’s society.
Should your brand be using Instagram?
Instagram, named Apple’s app of the year, has quickly become the biggest thing in photograph-based social networking. The photo sharing app has 15 million users and 1 million new users a fortnight. But what does this mean for online brand building?
Unpaid overtime – The TUC gets it wrong AGAIN!
So the TUC has carried out a survey that has apparently found that two billion hours of overtime was carried out by British workers last year. On top of that, the union says that these extra hours could have resulted in a million extra jobs being created.
10 Reasons Why Presentations Fail
One way to raise the profile of your business is to seek opportunities to speak in public. These could be anything from a slot at a lunch time networking group, a joint seminar with a local accountant to a keynote speech at a trade conference. But many so many presentations (and presenters) fail to engage their audience. This article also offers ten tips to help you counteract the possible pitfalls of a poor presentation.
Online Video Marketing: The Small Business Strategy Guide
‘Companies everywhere are recognising that video has become the factor that can provide an edge over the competition’ – the wise words of James Leal-Valias, creative director at iStockphoto, writing for Business Matters a few weeks ago under the title ‘Design for Small Business: Integrating Online into Your Marketing Mix’.
The unexpected experiment
I tempted fate and suffered the consequences. How would I managed without my phone for nearly 24 hours? I dreaded the thought but found out anyway.
Making the most of the information you have. Part 2
Here I discuss the importance of tracking data and gathering information within your business. It then goes on to discuss what data you need and how to use it in order to grow your business.
Become a Business Celebrity and write your Book Today!
Over the years I have heard so many people say to me that they do not have the time to write a book and that they cannot afford the cost of publishing it. My response is always, quite simply, you cannot afford not to write your book.
HMRC set to plug into electricians
Electricians could be in for a shock as they have moved to the top of the taxman’s targeted campaign list as the Electricians Tax Safe Plan (ETSP) will begin in February 2012 and give an opportunity for electricians and electrical fitters to come forward and declare unpaid tax.
Forum of Private Business calls for tax breaks for private lenders
With another recession looming, the Forum of Private Business is calling for the spotlight to be placed squarely back on small firms’ finances in the form of tax breaks for private lenders.
Keep you mitts off Private Exec Pay
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s statements that he is going to get ‘tough on exec pay’ in the private sector are ‘ludicrous and totally unrealistic’ according to Will Davies – co-founder of one of Britain’s fastest growing property maintenance companies.
