Real Business

Love her or loathe her, business owners can learn a great deal from the Iron Lady.

Topics: Management

How can you have a positive influence on your business if you're too stressed to enjoy it?

Topics: Management

Managers are split into two categories: rescuers and delegators. Which one are you?

Topics: Management

For the sake of the workers, trade unions need to stop navel-gazing and get on the side of business, argues Jan Cavelle.

Topics: Management

Jan Cavelle, founder and CEO of The Jan Cavelle Furniture Company, has ten requests for Santa this year.

Topics: HR | Management

Thanks to the Red Tape Brigade, no-one gets to enjoy the Christmas party any more. Bah humbug.

Topics: Management

If senior executives at Royal Bank of Scotland had been let go (or given a sabbatical) after seven years of service, would the bank still have needed to be bailed out?

Topics: Management

If Vince Cable really wants to put employers and employees on an equal footing, he'll need to bring in a very different Employer's Charter for business owners. Here's what it would look like.

Topics: HR

It's the biggest single day of industrial unrest since the Winter of Discontent – and it's doing huge damage to the fabric of the UK economy.

Topics: HR

Theresa May has jumped on the publicity bandwagon by announcing a £2m mentoring scheme for female entrepreneurs. Here's why I have zero faith in the new "support package".

Topics: Management

I've always relied on the local Jobcentre Plus as a free (and in the past fairly reliable) source of local labour. Never again.

Topics: HR

I was asked in an interview yesterday what I would do if I were Prime Minister for a day. My immediate answer: I would take Britain out of the EU. Here's why.

Topics: Management

The mid-size companies in Britain's manufacturing towns are to blame for the country's anaemic growth. It's time to sweep the dinosaurs away, says furniture-maker Jan Cavelle.

Topics: Management

I'm a female business owner and one of the UK's Female Entrepreneurship Ambassadors. But, with all this recent talk about boardroom quotas, I've started to wonder if I am anti-feminist.

Topics: Management

Government interference is crushing the joy out of running a business.

Topics: Management