Real Business

Businesses shouldn't hang grimly on to their best ideas; they should share them as widely as possible. Mad? I don't think so. Why sharing ideas will boost your business.

Columnist Michael Hayman discusses why Lord Young is "The Dude" of Downing Street.

Topics: Management & HR

Never forget your first 100 days in business. They will be the most important, defining and enduring days of your business life.

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Entrepreneurs are essential to a new economic order, argues Michael Hayman.

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Another day, another gloomy statistic about the UK high street. Bad news – and the pathological pursuit of it – is the curse of our generation.

Over the past few months, I have spent time with Olympic legend and British swimming athlete Duncan Goodhew. Here's what he has taught me about running a business.

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There is a business in everyone. That was the message from the Prime Minister in Leeds this afternoon as he launched a new national campaign to accelerate entrepreneurship in the UK.

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In many areas of life, we've lost the ability to say what we mean, and in turn, mean what we say, argues Michael Hayman.

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What business owners can learn from Cortés, captain of the Conquistadors.

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How do you win in business when you're technically superior but numerically inferior? Take some lessons from Iraq.

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Global Entrepreneurship Week kicks off today with the assertion that “every business starts with a conversation”...

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The screen at the IMAX in London is massive. Fitting, then, that it has provided the setting today for the Prime Minister to outline a raft of initiatives and thinking aimed at enhancing small business competitiveness on the global stage...

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Lord Young is set to return to Downing Street this week to work as David Cameron’s enterprise adviser. Michael Hayman asks: "Is this good news for entrepreneurs?"

We can't afford to be pessimistic about our future, says Michael Hayman. The time is now.

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Real entrepreneurs only fail by other people's judgement, not their own, argues Michael Hayman.

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