The prime minister needs to run the country like a company – and that starts with a business plan. Where do we want to be and how are we going to get there, Mr Cameron?
Topics: Management & HR
If Britain wants to remain a major economic force, it needs to plan for the future. How are we going to beat growing unemployment? Martin Leuw has four ideas.
Topics: Management & HR
Ask most business leaders about office politics, and they're either in denial – “it may happen elsewhere, but not in my company” – or they seem to accept that it's “a normal feature of business life, just human nature”.
Topics: Management & HR
Last week, I found myself with a group of other CEOs in a field in Wales whistling and barking orders like "lay low" and "go by" to a Border Collie. Here's how an away-day can transform your business.
Topics: Management & HR
Before finding a winning formula, you'll need to have more than your fair share of failures.
Topics: Management & HR
Could crowdsourcing be the way to finance your naked business ambitions?
Topics: Finance
After spending ten years as CEO of Iris Software, I've boiled my experience down to six essential tips for sustainable growth. Here they are!
The recent announcement that Cisco is investing £310m in the East London Tech City to build two networked Innovation Centres deserves considerably more plaudits than it has received so far. Here's why.
What can you do to not make a bad situation even worse? Don't take advice from BAA. Plus, my new year resolutions for business.
Last week, I was at the House of Commons talking about how to promote mutual understanding between parliament and the world of commerce. Here are the three main lessons from the event – and why Luke Johnson flew off the handle.
Skilled migrants are not a burden on Britain. They don't commit more crime, and they don't take the jobs of British workers. Why are we capping them?
The results of the latest Young Presidents’ Organisation (YPO) Global Pulse Confidence Index were released earlier this week. The results give a fascinating "pulse check" of business trends.
Britain's young and promising companies are just the tip of the iceberg.
This morning I listened to Steve Ballmer talking over breakfast. Admittedly I was one of a few hundred people in the LSE lecture theatre but privileged nonetheless to hear the thoughts of Microsoft's CEO on cloud computing.
This week I was very privileged to attend the first day of Seedcamp week as mentor to a batch of highly talented tech entrepreneurs at UCL in London.