Hilary Briggs, London Chairman of the Academy of Chief Executives, talks about how in tough economic times lower sales trigger the need for cost reductions and why with a slimmed down workforce you can’t build your team the normal way.
Category: Opinion
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
It’s that (recruitment) time again…
“Where exactly is the ‘middle of nowhere’ please?”
With the latest figures on graduate recruitment showing that vacancies have dropped by nearly 7% in the year up to June 2010 following a fall of 8.9% in 2009, businesses might be forgiven for thinking that the lucky few to succeed in gaining employment would turn up on the first day with a strong work ethic.
Brad’s three top tips for getting the most out of networking
There’s lots of advice I could give you about how to get the most out of networking. If you ever want my help with that come and ask me. But these are the most important things to remember, in my opinion:
England lose World Cup final 2-1
The date is July 30th 1966: Imagine if Geoff Hurst had been sick on that summer’s day, history would be very different.
The Pitch 2010: Your chance to win £50,000 of business support
Entrepreneurs from around the country are gearing up to take part in the most business-focussed competition of 2010, competing against fellow start-ups and small business owners from their region and around the UK for the chance to be crowned Britain’s Best New Business.
Are you a business hero?
A search to find the UK’s most inspirational men and women who have beaten the odds to succeed in business has got underway with the launch of the fifth annual Barclays Trading Places Awards.
Nearly half of business owners more stressed than year ago
Pressure is mounting among many business owners according to a survey which shows that 41% of private company bosses say their stress levels have increased compared to a year ago.
Life’s not fair
If this election is about two things it’s fairness and change. The Labour party have adopted fairness, the Conservatives change and the Lib Dems sat on the fence and used both. What a cop out.
Being popular doesn’t make it right
Call it a SuBo effect if you like, the surge in popularity of Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems is a disaster.
David Cameron was right “Put down the BlackBerry”
In all the fuss over mounting debt and sneaky give-away’s, Claire King thinks that David Cameron made a crucial point in his riposte immediately as Alistair Darling sat down, which I fear will be overlooked by many Budget commentators.
Duncan Bannatyne: Why Non-Doms have an ‘unfair’ advantage in business
Would you give your customers your products if they paid one of your competitors for them? Then why do we allow people to live in the UK, receive public sector services from the government, but pay for them in the form of taxes to another country?
Women are better at interviews but fear of maternity means they loose out
According to bosses women perform better at interviews, have better presentation, communication, motivation skills, understand companies and cultures better, are more thorough, affable and better able to balance multiple tasks and yet according to 42.7% of senior management surveyed by TheLadders.co.uk, they will not get the top job because they fear that women will leave to have children.
Women don’t need to act like men to succeed in the Boardroom
Following the latest reports that women are still under-represented in big businesses, a leading career accelerator is urging women to stick to their guns and not resort to traditional ‘command and control’ behaviour just to get ahead.
UK’s most powerful companies are Twitter shy
With Twitter expected to serve its 10 billionth tweet on Friday, 5 March, research has found that just a fraction of the FTSE 100 have got on board with Twitter. Just 16 of the UK’s top 100 companies are using the social networking site to chat with customers. The sidelining of Twitter as an informal communication channel could well be costing them dearly – 20 per cent of ‘tweets’ contain a reference to a product or brand, according to metrics released last week*.
Do entrepreneurs & enterprise get a rough deal in the media?
In the late 1980’s, Clive Woodcock was about the only journalist reporting on small business issues through his column in Friday’s Guardian. His solitary status reflected the lack of media interest in the subject; the term entrepreneur hadn’t been widely adopted, nor had our work culture embraced the positive options of self-employment.
