Recruiting a fraudster
Oct 19 2010
If anything can scupper your business, it’s hiring the wrong person.
Antisocial media
Sep 21 2010
As important as iPods, mobile phones and cloud computing are for the march of progress, perhaps it’s time to stop seeing innovation and technology as universal forces of good.
More bad news
Sep 07 2010
The austerity of the forthcoming Spending Review is fast taking on the spectre of a latter-day Spanish Inquisition.
Better with age
Aug 24 2010
Not so long ago a government report concluded that two-thirds of employers felt that 16-year old school leavers were well prepared for work.
Calling in sick
Jul 13 2010
Bosses are rendered powerless by the line: ‘I feel a bit fluey, I don’t think I’ll be able to come in today.’
Going offline
Jun 29 2010
Mediterranean weather. A Sunday kick-off. No wonder supermarkets sold millions of sausages, beefburgers and cans of beer to the nation’s legion of expectant footie fans.
Football's financial training
Aug 10 2010
The football season has yet to kick-off and already one Premier League manager has quit.
Osborne, cider and double dips
Jun 23 2010
So the cider drinkers are happy, but what about the rest of us?
The golden age of business
Jun 15 2010
Many were surprised to learn that the 85-year-old former Labour MP, Tony Benn, has invented a suitcase-cum-chair. Not least The Daily Mail, which chortled: ‘The scourge of capitalism turns entrepreneur by inventing the “Seatcase”.'
Kicking off
Jun 01 2010
It all starts so well. You wait years for the moment to come, yes the odds are stacked against you, but this time will be different. Hours have been spent in the pub discussing strategy and you feel the team won’t let you down. Fast-forward a month and it soon becomes clear that the people you were relying on to bring you glory haven’t delivered. Running a business was never going to be that easy.
Bad managers
May 18 2010
An effective boss doesn’t have to be liked. If you’re too close to staff you’ll be regarded as a walkover, but if you go the other way and constantly criticise your employees, then they’ll stop working for you.
Rabbit out the hat
May 04 2010
Small businesses want a new government to get banks to lend on less onerous terms and for taxes to be reduced. Not even the combined talents of David Blaine and Derren Brown could pull off such an act of magic.
A question of confidence
Apr 20 2010
Optimism is a default setting for most bosses. How do you win new business and drive a company forward if you’re glum faced, taciturn and obsessing about ‘tough times’?
Politicians love SMEs (when there’s an election)
Apr 06 2010
Over the coming weeks tax and spending will become the battleground for the main political parties, as Gordon Brown finally let slip what he called the ‘worst kept secret in politics,’ the date of the election.
A four letter word
Mar 24 2010
The euro used to be at the heart of political debate in this country. Now you would be hard pressed to get the two main parties to reveal their policy on the subject.
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