Growing the business is always at the forefront of any business owner’s mind. It can often mean the difference between success and failure – without the right team, it’s unlikely that the business will thrive.
Category: Opinion
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
The Apprentice: Fudged failure and sweet success
If you saw The Apprentice this week, you will know what I mean when I say the teams really fudged it – the task proposed generated both friction and sweet success.
The fork in the road: braving the cloud
SME’s are now facing a fork in the road when it comes to their IT decisions. With more and more businesses on the whole moving to the cloud
5 ways clever communications can help virtual businesses thrive
According to Analyst Canalys, “Based on current trends and changes in working culture, almost all information workers will have the option of remote working by 2022, with the main means of communication being social media and video conferencing via mobile devices.”
Starting a Business: Deciphering Tips from the Experts
The business world is full of people offering hopeful young entrepreneurs advice on starting a business.
Deborah Meaden’s top tips for corporate fundraising
Deborah Meaden shares her top tips on what other companies can do to help raise money for charity.
The Apprentice: Basic brands, abysmal adverts and poor pitches
Week two of The Apprentice and what a shambles it was! Crying, flustering, stress, conflict – and that was only day one.
How to tackle your inbox after a holiday
Facing your inbox can be a big job after a week away, so here we have a some tips for getting back to email zen.
The six habits of happy people
As a society we can be somewhat obsessive in our pursuit of happiness. A Google search for “happiness” yields in the order of 152 million results.
Taking the Government to court over Article 50 is doing them a favour
It’s now more than three months since it was decided by referendum that the United Kingdom should withdraw from the European Union.
How to get your website right
Vital to your business success is ensuring your website is multi-use across all devices, but this does require careful planning – says Sharon Stevens-Cash, director of Derby-based Gravity Digital. Here’s how to get it right.
Tax avoidance by large corporates is the biggest balancing act for May
The Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday put tax avoidance by large corporates at the centre of her Conservative Party conference speech in Birmingham.
Winning qualities in business…and in The Apprentice
Apprentice season is upon us once again and as we start to predict who will become Lord Sugar’s next business partner and who will be out of the door in a matter of weeks – winning The Apprentice and starting a new business both require extremely similar qualities:
The Apprentice: Lord Sugar searches for his diamond
Series 12 commences and The Apprentice is officially back! The 18 hopefuls are introduced into the process with a task to sell different antique valuables, but just how well did they cope with the challenge?
Rise in HMRC raids highlights “the age of mistrust,”
A leading City of London solicitor has spoken out against news that the number ‘premises raids’ carried out by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) as part of tax evasion investigations has risen by more than half in the past five years.
