Juggling your life passion and your full-time job
For most of us, quitting our day jobs to follow our passion seems completely unrealistic. So, if your full-time job is the job you need, then your passion should be the job that you choose.
8 signs that you need to change careers and kiss your 9-5 goodbye
Remaining in a job you hate is more common than you realise, even if you’re high up the corporate ladder. This is something I identified with, that was, until I left my comfortable management position to become my own boss and freed myself from the 9-5.
Seven habits of highly effective finance directors
To be one of those highly effective finance directors, you have to be up-to-date on all the latest accounting standards, be know the latest developments in tax legislation and spend long hours in your office reviewing reconciliations and signing off VAT returns. That’s right isn’t it? No.
Bad advice didn’t stand in the way of this founder’s crazy business
Along your way to become a business owner, you’ve probably heard all sorts of bad advice from people. Would you let that stop you though?
Why falling in love with your product can be fatal
If you’re bringing a technology-based product to market, then you could be at risk of falling in love with your product – to a dangerous extent.
Our hunt for a new CEO
In wanting to free himself up to be the creative driver of his business, Nigel Shanahan has been on the hunt for a new CEO – and shares some valuable tips.
Rocket your sales with founder selling – make people want to buy from you
If you’re trying to grow your business organically you’ll need to make sales (and lots of them!) to become successful. If you’re a funded firm, you’re likely to need to make even more sales to keep the hungry VCs off your back and provide the return they crave! This will require a healthy dose of founder selling.
Charlie Mullins: The UK is a nation of entrepreneurs, not just shopkeepers
This week is, traditionally, one of the busiest in business. The schools are back from summer holidays and, therefore, so are many of the business owners that drive the economy forward.
What can your company be best in the world at?
The above question is both as stunning in its simplicity as it is difficult to answer. It is the central concept of the compelling business analysis book "Good to Great" by Jim Collins first published in 2001.
What are key ingredients to being a customer-led firm? Passion and ambition, says Virgin Wines CEO
The core idea of the customer-led company is to focus on needs and not products. With this in mind, Real Business talked to Virgin Wines CEO Jay Wright about how the customer's needs should be central to any business.
The story of an FD who chose to work part-time to fuel his passion for cycling
An experienced finance director, Paul Turner is also a passionate cyclist. Some seven years ago, he became a portfolio FD to accommodate in his life the things he truly enjoyed.