Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
Job titles have moved on a lot from simple descriptions of basic skills sets and products delivered. Once upon a time brewers brewed and were often headed up by a head brewer and postmen and women delivered post and were subservient to the post master.
The recent general election has certainly brought up some strong feelings amongst voters in the UK – but what happens when politics spills over into the workplace?
It is nearly impossible to translate — let alone execute – a strategy that you don’t understand.
Mobile applications have come a long way. Just 15 years ago you were lucky to have the game Snake installed on your phone (remember?).
Listen Ray, I don’t have the bandwidth for it with everything that’s on my plate, but ping me anyway because at the end of the day it’s on my radar and I don’t want to be thrown under the bus because I didn’t circle back around on this no-brainer.
Satisfied customers are the Holy Grail for any business. With high levels of support, customer churn is minimised and existing customers not only buy more from you, they recommend you to others.
Whilst neuroscience may be the new industry buzz word, businesses are still failing to obtain a true insight into what their customers think and feel and what their decision making processes are, according to neuroscientist and cognitive psychologist Dr Lynda Shaw.
It takes a certain type of person to be an entrepreneur. You need an extraordinarily amount of drive, passion and dedication to stand a chance.
Every marketer is being told that personalisation is the number one priority. But when does personalisation become too personal? When does the great customer offer segue into the over familiar communication that has a detrimental effect on the relationship?
Stanford University neurosurgeon Dr. James Doty tells the story of performing surgery on a little boy’s brain tumour. In the middle of the procedure, the resident who is assisting him gets distracted and accidentally pierces a vein.
Launched in the 1970s by US giants like Tony Robbins and Louise Hay, and fed by videos ranging from The Secret to What the Bleep Do We Know, the self-help movement has become a booming industry offering everything from NLP and healing to the Law of Attraction.
In the wake of the General Election as the nation is awash with blue, David Cameron is now back at Downing Street making his speech having won an outright Conservative majority. It cannot be denied that it was a momentous day.
Success starts with thinking differently from everyone else, because then you can achieve differently from everyone else.
Despite the fact that current business leaders, predominantly in their forties and fifties, will likely be working longer than the generation before them, it’s the Millennials, now in their twenties and thirties, who will dominate the companies of the future.
Is your mouth saying one thing and your body something else?
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