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Have you ever interviewed an entrepreneur? They can usually be herded into three groups. The worst are the boring, the bored, the secretive …

Gee, I thought our taxes paid for roads. But apparently not. Apparently roads are free and we ought to be paying to use them. I am not t…

We’ve asked the best in the business to reveal their secrets on how to nail a speech. Here are 15 foolproof tips to improve your public spea…

At this stage of the downturn we would expect to see company insolvencies leaping, as we did towards the tail end of the 1990s recession. Bu…

At times in the last six months it has been awfully quiet. Many business owners hunkered down, and surveys showed us that they have been foc…

The new financial year begins with falling stock markets at half the levels of the previous year, rising levels of unemployment, massive pon…

During a recent workshop, in which I was working with a leadership group to increase their understanding of mental health issues in the work…

We all want to be doing business with people we trust. This sort of sounds obvious doesn’t it? We like doing business, or working with peopl…

I have just been promoted and am now responsible for a team of three people. Before my promotion I was a part of this team. I am unsure how …

Gee, yesterday was fun. I spent half the morning at a creditor’s meeting and then came back to the office and had to deal with another bad d…

Many victims of the giant Ponzi scheme run by fraudster Bernie Madoff had waited a long time for their day in court. Nine victims stood up t…

I love this expression – because it is so visual! The Elephant in the Room is the thing that is there but that no one talks about – and it c…