This article first appeared on August 4, 2010. Dear Aunty B, Help! I am in the unbelievable and enviable position of having two great candid…
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This article first appeared on August 4, 2010. Dear Aunty B, Help! I am in the unbelievable and enviable position of having two great candid…
This article first appeared on December 16, 2009. Dear Aunty B, We have made a big investment in sales staff this year in order to boost sa…
This piece was first published on October 2, 2012. Dear Aunty B, My co-worker just sat down and ate an entire roast chicken he bought from t…
Dear Aunty B, I’d wish you a Merry Christmas and all that but I am not feeling all that festive. I’ve just been working on some cashflow pro…
Dear Aunty B, I hope you can solve this one because it is doing my head in. I have a delightful PA who does a really good job. The problem i…
Dear Aunty B, I have always got on very well with my business partners. We have built a very strong company and there is strong demand for o…
Hey Aunty B, I have a difficult employee who is now pregnant and won’t give me any indication about whether she will be returning to work fu…
Dear Aunty B, Yesterday, I found a leaflet from one of my competitors in my mailbox. Their leaflet mentions my business by name, and then pr…
Dear Aunty B, I’m an executive assistant and recently started work at a new company. It’s all fine, apart from one problem: there’s a…
Dear Aunty B, I have stepped into middle management in a graphic design business and I have 11 staff on my team. Since taking on the role, I…
Dear Aunty B, I’m a partner in a medium-sized law firm. We have a large number of existing and new clients, and as such we generate a hug…
Dear Aunty B, Our business has used the same name and logo since we’ve started out a number of years ago. Recently, I’ve started feeling…