New year round the corner, recession in the works, and a burgeoning need for our businesses to step up and meet environmental and social goals as they meet their commercial ones. Who said running a business was easy? Here’s what I’d look at: *FIRST*Make sure your business-as-usual is working well. You will not be able […]
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“We create wealth on Capitalist principles and distribute it on Marxist ones”
“Create wealth like a Capitalist, distribute it like a Marxist.” Here’s what that looks like… Simon Biltcliffe believes that Capitalism is a great way to create wealth, but is terrible at distributing it. And Marxism can’t create wealth for toffee, but has great principles for distributing it. Adjust for externalities, and there you have the […]
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! And the ones trying to get processes in place, for a variety of avoidable reasons are usually doing so without great or sustained success. There […]
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, and an economy that needs immigration to function at its capacity.” That’s the gap, the gap between refugees that have made it to the UK […]
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 those of us running SMEs should keep focussed on. Watching politics at the help of the UK right now, you can’t help but feel that […]