Do you Trust your Boss
Posted on 11-10-2009 at Do you Trust your boss?
I think the answer is no and always has been! Except for the lucky few most organisations are populated by staff who simply do not trust their managers, owners and shareholders. Who can blame them, the personal FaceBook and Twitter accounts are routinely examined for innappropriate comments if the bosses don't trust the workers it surely follows th...
New Funding For Leaders and Managers
Posted on 11-10-2009 at 12:30
Do you know there is ‘NEW’ business support funding for Leaders & Managers? Are you a company director or senior manager in a private limited company, lead a charity, voluntary or not for profit organisation in the North East Region? Do you employ between 5-249 employees? (Including volunteers) If the answer is YES to both,...
Strategy for the North East
Posted on 06-10-2009 at 19:17
Okay, so the article doesn't really mention the North East much or Yorkshire for that matter but it still makes interesting reading. Perhaps one day journalists and editors will realise that as vibrant as it is, the North does not stop at Manchester!! It is not just David Cameron’s admiration for the 1980s indie music of The Smiths t...
Recruitment Cartel
Posted on 01-10-2009 at 07:00
Well, I do have to declare an interest in the piece. As an independent recruiter I suppose they are the competition! If its true, they deserve to be punished, as to the size of the fine,one has to assume it is proportionate with what they can afford and the severity of the offence. My only experience of them has been at the executive end,...
Intellectual property
Posted on 24-09-2009 at 19:17
A trio of top PR agencies have been offered 'cash for ideas' after being eliminated from a high-profile pitch process. Confused.com this week concluded a six-way pitch for consumer PR support, by appointing Cake. But the price comparison website then surprised some of the losing agencies by also offering to pay for their creative. Agencies...
Leadership
Posted on 23-09-2009 at 07:00
Business has been through the toughest downturn in seven decades with a recession that has tested the leadership qualities of the world’s chief executives. It is a topic that has been questioned intensely during this crisis after a series of bad decisions by top executives led to ruin in industries as diverse as banking and carmaking. That...
Accountants warning
Posted on 19-09-2009 at 09:35
A raft of entrepreneurs and financiers are contemplating moving abroad for fear that the planned rise in the top income tax rate to 50 per cent could dent their earnings severely, accountants claim. The tax rise, set for April, coupled with new rules limiting the tax relief on pensions to £30,000 and scrapping personal allowances for ...
Entrepreneurs still bullish in the face of adversity
Posted on 19-09-2009 at 14:00
SME owners remain optimistic, despite the downturn - although newsagents might beg to differ. It’s official: entrepreneurial Brits are made of sturdy stuff. A new study commissioned by business insurer Hiscox has found that UK SME owners remain surprisingly defiant as they ride out ‘the worst recession in living memory’. Yet de...
Royal Mail strike looms
Posted on 17-09-2009 at 19:17
The prospect of a full-scale walk-out by Royal Mail staff moved a step closer today, after the Communication Workers Union asked its 100,000 members to vote on a proposed national strike. The various wildcat strikes across the country in recent weeks have already played havoc with the post – some estimates suggest that up to 20m letters and p...
UK buy-out leader quits after bitter strategy dispute
Posted on 05-09-2009 at 07:00
Jon Moulton, the outspoken UK private equity industry leader, has resigned as head of Alchemy Partners, calling for the buy-out house to be wound up after a dispute over strategy. Mr Moulton announced his departure with a vitriolic attack on the firm he founded in 1997. "With profound regret, Alchemy is not what it once was," he wrote i...
