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It’s common knowledge that building a successful start-up is extremely challenging. As the UK business revolution shows no sign of ending, the number of start-ups struggling continues to skyrocket, with nine out of ten failing. Tom Fairey,…

We are all guilty of a few bad habits, both at home and at work. In the office, bad habits often manifest themselves in ways related to key systems and processes which can, in turn, undermine productivity. Below Darren Upson, VP of Small…

Visitors can feel the culture the moment they walk in the door to your offices. Worth £193 billion annually to the UK economy, face-to-face business remains king, so how can UK business owners make every visit to their organisation…

Dan Turner, CEO of British cybersecurity firm Deep Secure, surveys the ever-growing list of successful attacks and asks why the cybersecurity industry has been getting it so wrong for so long. Unquantifiable Risk Some years…

In our 30 years of working with clients all over the globe, there’s one very important conversation that rarely comes up – but it should. And while it’s not talked about, it plays out in front of us. As outsiders, we can see it so plainly:…

Is there any one way to lead? Unfortunately, things just aren’t that simple. There are too many different strategies to count, and then the question arises: is it better to stick to traditional techniques or innovate with something more…

Nepotism, in practice, has its ups and downs—most likely, when you hear the word, a negative association naturally comes with it. Is it all bad, or should hiring within the family be kept to a minimum? We hear from Jean-Luc Castro,…

When Aileen Lee created the term ‘Unicorn’ to describe any privately held start-up valued at over $1 billion, she was speaking about their mythical rarity. But she could also have been talking about their mythical price tags. Below Will…

Over a third of employees (34%) worldwide think that their company doesn’t listen to their ideas for improving the business, according to new research released by idea management company, Sideways 6. The findings have been announced…

Taxes never leave you. You have to pay them when you work and will continue paying them in retirement. Taxes in retirement are calculated on your income each year as you receive it, exactly the way it worked before you retired. Retirement…

Being one of the world’s biggest sporting events, on a par with the Olympics, the FIFA World Cup invites 32 nations to compete across the globe. This in turn leads to a global viewership that is targeted for mass marketing by thousands of…