It’s that time again. For four weeks, you can’t move for footie. Now, as it happens, I’m not a huge football fan. I’ll be reasonably interested in the England games, and I’ll almost certainly watch the semis and final games. But I wouldn’t break into a run to get anywhere in time for a match, [...]
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New entrepreneurs, on the cusp of starting their own businesses, generally fall into two categories: People with no idea what to do, but the urge to try something new People with a brilliant/hare-brained idea, but no idea how to execute it In the second category are a fabulous breed of people: the hobbyists. Turning a [...]
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This week I thought I’d tie together several news stories which all belie the same theme: loose tongues cost both money and reputations. On Sunday, the News of The World published an extraordinary expose of the Duchess of York, apparently hawking business access to her ex-husband. It’s a grubby little tabloid set-up; but other stories [...]
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Entrepreneurship is cool. It’s going to stay cool, because in a recession, business is the most exciting way to turn things around. But how can we bring business to the masses? Rachel Bridge, Enterprise Editor for the Sunday Times is having a go… by taking a one-woman show about entrepreneurship to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival [...]
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Off to Leicester last week for my annual pilgrimage to DeMontfort University, where the business studies courses include a ritual called Fox’s Lair – a thinly disguised version of TV favourite dragon’s Den. Teams of students put together a business idea, draw up a plan and present it to the Dragons – no, I mean [...]
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Tomorrow, there will be an empty chair in our office. A stray tumbleweed will gently play across a desk. Sands will slowly envelop the three-tier trays. For Eamonn, my Producer, is stranded in Chicago. Like several hundred thousand other people, the Icelandic volcaninc eruption and subsequent flight embargo means he’s going nowhere; most likely until [...]
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Look at this merry lot. Is it the last day of the Oktoberfest? A leaving party, perhaps? No – it’s the London Area Communicators Group monthly meetup (run by the inestimable Matt O’Neill). Every industry has networking groups, and I truly believe that these gatherings are the lifeblood of business. When I first started out, [...]
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This week, I tried my hand at organising an offsite day. It’s very easy when you’re stuck in the rough and tumble of day-to-day business to get lost; to lose sight of the wood from the trees. Getting everyone out of the office, away from phones and emails, for a healthy open discussion is a [...]
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