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In the passed eight years since founding RedBalloon, we’ve created several businesses along the way and they all have led to other greater…

Let’s face it. Just as there are some rogue employers there are rogue employees. And I see several problems with the new National Employment…

 Smart companies planning their inventories and marketing plans for the coming year will be wise to remember the rubric that there is n…

There are some of the more famous (paraphrased!) quotes from history, “Hitler’s a pretty cool dude, I doubt we’ll go to war with the likes o…

Smart companies that are cutting back on their Christmas parties, substituting an offer of continued employment for the annual bonus and fin…

We’ve been in the gifting business for eight years and we’ve seen what works and what can go terribly wrong. Sometimes I shake my head in di…

I have been promoted to a more senior role that requires me to regularly present to the board of my company. I am struggling with this. I ge…

You wouldn’t know it when looking at photos of Therese Rein in the press. But she has had a bad year. The entrepreneur who also happens to b…

Last night I got called a selfish capitalist. It was not meant in a nasty way. It was an observation made by a young woman who was grappling…

During the last week I have had the opportunity to meet a number of really inspiring people including the SmartCompany Start Up Award entran…

Remember this time last year? Desperate employers were in the news as they cut back their spend on their Christmas parties. And many compani…

It’s pretty common to hear the collective song of “fair suck of the sauce bottle”, (thanks Kevinator or was his version ‘shake’?) from som…