The virtual team bandwagon has been well and truly gathering speed prior to COVID-19. Even before the pandemic sent us all back home to work, 85% of us have at some time worked in a virtual team and almost 20% of us spent our working day interacting with other virtual teams. Building trust is harder […]
At first glance, it seems absurd to mention genius scientists like Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking in the same breath as Madonna or Kim Kardashian because their personalities could not be more different. What could possibly connect a giant of the intellectual stage such as the physicist Steven Hawking with the boxing legend Muhammad Ali, […]
My work with co-founder teams always addresses conflict, which can be productive or destructive. In healthy, high-performing teams, conflict is welcome and productive. And when it’s destructive, it can threaten the stability and future of the company. Conflict is often driven by beliefs or experiences related to an aspect of a co-founder’s life that may […]
Jonathan Mellert Manzi is an innovator, entrepreneur, and trailblazer, the figure behind Beyond Protocol, a distributed ledger technology venture, along with Inc, a tech company reimagining the digital print industry. Manzi is one of the youngest people in history to attain a net worth surpassing $1 million at 16 years old. He went to Stanford […]
On Thursday, Thailand’s Central Group and Austrian real estate firm Signa Group, which already jointly own several major European department stores, said they had sealed a deal on the Selfridges sale. Selfridges has been owned by the billionaire Weston family for almost two decades after the Canadian wing of the family purchased the luxury department […]
The fallout from Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic, including rising costs and supply shortages, is continuing to affect organisations across all areas of the business landscape. As a result, decision-makers must find ways to live with disruption for the foreseeable future by rapidly adapting their business models, while keeping costs under control. A constant challenge […]
Love him or loathe him, there is no denying that Elon Musk is one of the world’s most influential people. 2021 saw the Tesla CEO crowned Time magazine’s “Person of the Year'' as his electric vehicle company became the most valuable in the world, his space company successfully carried an all-civilian crew to the edge […]
The evolution of remote working has been a topic of conversation throughout the current century, but it is only in the past two years that it has entered the mainstream. While the impact of remote working on businesses and their workforces has been covered extensively during the pandemic, there remains one point that is worth reiterating: […]
Paul Pethick, author of Power of Play: How play and its games shape life, explains how play can advance your leadership. What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you see the word ‘play’? If it’s the opposite of work, your kid’s pre-school or, at best, a team-building afternoon on the third floor, then […]
At the recent Cop26 meeting in Glasgow the words ‘net zero’ got bounced around a fair whack. Indeed, everywhere it seems people and businesses alike are talking about their plans for greater sustainability, and politicians are promising we’ll be net zero by the time I’ve finally worked out what TikTok is and why I don’t […]
Ian Thatcher, co-founder of Dangerfield & Fortune, explains the opportunity cost of failing to engage with communities as a business. Developing new, commercially focussed ways for communities to work in partnership with construction, telco and utility businesses could revolutionise community liaison and public consultation, providing the catalyst to bringing about lasting change to the systems […]
Elon Musk has been named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2021, a year that saw Tesla become the most valuable carmaker in the world and Musk's space company SpaceX carry an all-civilian crew to the edge of space. Tesla’s market value rocketed to more than $1 trillion this year, making the electric vehicle […]
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