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“Put your best people into your best opportunities not your worst problems” was one of the nuggets that were generously served around the table during dinner at the Entrepreneurial Exchange’s Focus dinner. The title for the talks of the evening was “Leadership” it could have been sub headed…..”are leaders born or can leadership be taught?”
Such [...]

Daily dispatches from the business press, the BBC and the like are pushing us all towards the seemigly unavoidable conclusion that the landscape of the recovery is to be unlike any other we have known. John Major’s sunny weather report of green shoots in the Spring seems now to have as much nostalgic appeal as [...]

Perhaps you are finding that this recession is producing similar outcomes to previous ones. Sad to say that unfortunately some good companies are going to the wall or at least have become severely diminished versions of their former robust selves. As well as this sad fact you may also be seeing the demise of the [...]

Maybe it is good for the soul to be pitted against unseen and unknown forces and still stand tall rather than enjoy the fruits of easy labour. Well perhaps we haven’t ”had it so good” but the recent months have probably created a degree of nostalgia for the easy days of the mid decade. Or have they?
Listening [...]

Mervyn King doesn’t agree with Lord Adair and economists are divided. When is this banking crisis, my preferred term for the unholy mess we are ALL in, going to stop wrecking havoc on our businesses (the “real economy”)?  We are now officially in recession. So who do we trust to tell us when the green [...]

I don’t know what the past month has brought you but for many it has been a shocking time of disruption.
For those in banking, property, construction, food and distribution the effects have been felt as direct hits – body blows and some fatal. Many sectors are now feeling the impact of the inevitable slow up due to the banking crisis impacting [...]

So said Bob Keiller the charismatic chief exec of Production Services Network at the recent Entrepreneurial Exchange “An evening with….” series.
Bob’s injunction to his 8,500 staff, in 20 countries, is that they need to ditch the keyboard, pick up the phone or get face to face. I nearly cheered.
The amount of collateral damage I see happening [...]

Which recently surveyed 124 towns and regions in the UK and the Northwest of London came out the worst for retail customer service. So it was little surprise when Sathnam Sanghera, The Times witty and lively business columnist, reported that the shopping retail park adjacent to junction 1 of the M1 was “as cheerful as [...]