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Category: Opinion
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
Improve your company’s financing prospects
For SMEs in any industry or field of operations, finding the right kind of funding deals or arrangements can be critical to future success.
Make yourself immune to secondhand stress
Over the past decade, we have learned how our brains are hardwired for emotional contagion. Emotions spread via a wireless network of mirror neurons, which are tiny parts of the brain that allow us to empathize with others and understand what they’re feeling.
Boost your mental strength
The more you strengthen your mental muscle, the better equipped you’ll be to overcome life’s challenges.
Why I am giving up tipping – and you should do too
It has taken me 61 years to realise: I’m an idiot. Up to now, I’ve always been a generous tipper. If the hotel doorman hailed me a taxi he’d get a couple of quid. If the concierge sorted me a good table – a fiver. When I left, I incredibly even tipped the cloakroom lady for not losing my jacket.
Lack of transparency is limiting how useful the cloud is to businesses
Dante Orsini of SVP iland explains the limitations businesses face when using cloud computing backup systems.
5 of the best coworking spaces in London
Whether you’re an entrepreneur, startup or small team, utilising a co-working space could be advantageous for you and your business. Here we’ve listed the top 5 co-working spaces in London so you can take part in this rising business trend.
If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing properly
In my early career I can recall a meeting with the CEO of a major UK plc who lamented his lack of understanding of IT. Back then this was not an unusual comment. IT was still generally regarded as a ‘black art’ by many business stakeholders, particularly those at a senior level.
Benefits are a safety-net, not a way of life
The governments plans to introduce boot camps for young people out of work have come under a lot of scrutiny lately, but is the idea totally worth rubbishing?
Where are my people and how are they?
In his latest column, John Ritchie CEO of Ellipse, sets out the fundamentals for dealing with sickness absence and contends that attention to fundamentals and process are the foundations irrespective of the scale of your business.
Ditching the ‘telesales stereotype’ is key to building successful sales teams
Adam Walsh, business director at The Right Fuelcard Company discusses the secrets behind building a successful business sales team.
“Get a job and don’t go to University! They’re overcrowded”
Universities have been thrown into the spotlight once again, with suggestions that too many people choose University, and that more people should go straight into work.
5 failsafe ways to build a brilliant workforce
How often do we hear that employees are a company’s greatest asset? According to InterBe, there are five failsafe ways to build a brilliant workforce. Director Mo Cohen tells us more…
The importance of employer branding to startups
Director and Senior Consultant at Lucas Blake, Ian Butterworth, explains the importance of employer branding to startups.
How those employing just one person may need to provide a pension scheme
Pension auto-enrolment has arrived, under which almost all employers in the UK will need to provide an occupational pension scheme for their employees, and contribute to it.
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