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Does your business need great people or great processes?

Most businesses I come across, especially in the SME world, are either trying hard to get a bunch of processes in place or are living in shame because they’re not!…
The organisation trying to fix a fundamental employment paradox in the UK

The organisation trying to fix a fundamental employment paradox in the UK

We have a bit of an employment paradox in the UK. As Matt Powell, the founder and CEO of Breaking Barriers, puts it “We have a government that is anti-immigration,…

Empowerment and Response in a Time of Recession and Volatility

It’s tough to make decisions and run a business with the volatility we’ve got going on around us, but there’s one business priority at the highest level which I think…

The effective leadership team’s superpower…

… is discipline. Sure, being human, having vision, empathy, clarity, and so on – all of these are essential. But the place I’ve seen more SMEs fail to live up…
Bad news may sell. But it doesn’t make things better.

Bad news may sell. But it doesn’t make things better.

What do you do if the prevailing business “sense” is very clearly saying one thing, yet your values and what the world needs are in diametric opposition to this? That’s…

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