Jan Cavelle

Ignore the doom and gloom

Look for the silver lining

- Jan Cavelle

I saw that Lord Sugar has been quoted as saying of his new Apprentice contestants: “On paper you all look very good but then so does fish and chips”. I start recruiting this week and I have to say my fish and chips look pretty stale and my newspaper soggy.

Violent crime

Beware violent crime in the workplace

- Jan Cavelle

Here’s a frightening statistic: violence among women aged 15-44 causes more death and disability worldwide than war, cancer, malaria or traffic accidents.

Lipstick

Why women have it tougher than men

- Jan Cavelle

I'm going to stick my neck out here and proclaim this week that women bosses have it rough. And female leaders in the manufacturing sector have it rougher than most.

Treadmill

When dreams become disillusionment

- Jan Cavelle

It's all very well telling people to stop working 60-hour weeks. But when do workaholic entrepreneurs realise it's time to get off the treadmill?

Depressed

The perils of employment law

- Jan Cavelle

When furniture entrepreneur Jan Cavelle had to let several members of staff go over the summer, she was hit by a tidal wave of verbal abuse. Employment law meant she couldn't fight back.

Family business

The truth about family businesses

- Jan Cavelle

The heavily publicised picture of family businesses being strong on ethics, quality, filial love and long-term principles is, sadly, very rare. Believe me, I would know.

The missing link

- Jan Cavelle

The public sector purse is shrinking. Unemployment’s rising. Are we missing something?

Let's get Britain thinking positively

- Jan Cavelle

What would happen if people in government actually spent their time concentrating on improvements to the state of Britain? 

The economy has defeated Joe Public

- Jan Cavelle

I’m not convinced we’re over the worst of this recession. In fact, I’m inclined to believe that all those headlines about economic growth figures came from pre-election government spin doctors, trying to persuade the British public that Labour’s policies had worked a treat.

Oh for a business with no staff

- Jan Cavelle

We're approaching the end of the third quarter of our financial year – and we're way, way behind the targets I had set in our business plan, which is a bit grim to say the least.