Leadership, especially in an incredibly fast-paced digital world where there are disruptions coming from every direction, is tough. Whether you are a long-established CEO or COO grappling with the changes digital technology is bringing to your industry, or a newly appointed Chief Data or Digital Officer getting to grips with joining the C-Suite, it takes […]
Innovation is not a word that should be used frivolously. However, in recent years it has become a throwaway term that is frequently applied in reference to a product, act, or outcome. Few people use innovation to describe a continuous cycle or collective – a culture. In my experience, innovation as a culture is a […]
Dr David West is the Founder and Medical Director of Veincentre, the UK’s first nationwide, doctor-led business which focuses solely on the safe and effective removal of varicose veins—a condition affecting one in three adults around the world. The company was founded in 2003 by Dr West and his wife Deborah, who runs the day-to-day administration. Originally […]
Emelita Robbins is the CEO of Jersey Hospice Care, the island's only hospice and the largest independent charitable provider of healthcare services in the Channel Islands. The charity has a strategic leadership role in the delivery of end-of-life care across Jersey and provides education to all healthcare providers in this area. Jersey Hospice Care supports […]
Meetings are amongst the most frustrating elements of modern business. They can take too long, are often unfocused, and do not always achieve what they set out to. This is mostly because the entire meeting process has hardly changed in decades and is lacking in the digitisation that has transformed other areas of business. Camilla […]
Why creativity is iterative and not an end-game. #fail. It’s become a tag that no one wants to be associated with. In this social media-fuelled world we now live in, #winning tends to be what we all want to be striving for. And rightly so… otherwise, what’s the point in developing ourselves to be […]
Julia Meighan is CEO at VMAGROUP. Founded more than 40 years ago, VMAGROUP is an international interim and permanent recruitment and executive search specialist for communications, digital and marketing. With 35 consultants, they operate from hubs in the UK, continental Europe and Asia, and work with clients across all industry sectors from SMEs to multinational […]
No-one wants to be unhappy at work, and no employer wants an unmotivated workforce. Considering how much of our time is spent at work, it’s important that employees feel happy and engaged with their jobs, colleagues and managers. However, it’s inevitable that at some point, business leaders will have to deal with an employee handing […]
James Murray is the CEO of Send for Help Group. Send for Help is the largest lone worker protection firm in the world and makes GPS safety devices and smartphone apps protecting more than 150,000 people. The firm—based in Kingston, Surrey—was founded in 2010 by brothers James and Will Murray, a third generation of tech […]
Nothing is as invisible as the obvious, but chances are, you’re not paying close enough attention to notice. Take your workforce for example. On average, almost half of the workforce spend is on non-payroll workers and service providers. It is assumed that human resources, procurement and department managers have a handle on how this ‘external […]
As consumers, we find ourselves in increasingly asymmetric relationships with the companies that sell goods and services to us. In the most extreme cases, companies discover even more about us than our own families do. But to us, the way companies operate and make decisions feels increasingly like dark arts, despite us living in a so-called […]
The success of a business (and subsequently, its CEO) tends to be judged on the basis of hard facts and numbers such as revenue, investment, product development, and innovation. These are certainly critical metrics – but if achieving success were really that simple, every business with the right assets on paper would experience exponential growth. […]
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