Ten or fifteen years ago many in the business world were racing to get online. It was all dot.com this and e-commerce that. To have a vast website was the holy grail. All in the belief that it would, amongst other things, mean no more sales conventions, no more...

We decided on Majorca for a sneaky week away in June this year. It was an island I had never been to but had often thought about going to, and with a short two hour flight from our local airport and good weather likely, the time was right!We picked up a car at the...

It was back to The Far East for the March holiday this year, and Malaysia was the place we decided on for a two-week break, to escape the cold.We flew from Heathrow to Kuala Lumpur on a 13-hour journey, and then connected onto a one hour flight to the island of...

Can Attending a Networking Meeting Help My Business?It may surprise many of you to hear me say NO to the above question. If I wanted to waste my time, I could construct a list of maybe a hundred people known to me personally who have attended networking meetings and...

Being proactive in ensuring the wellbeing of your workforce is vital in any efforts to reduce absenteeism and/or increase productivity.For many employers once they’ve recruited & trained their workforce they assume (often wrongly) that all is well, and the staff...

Why are more and more 50+ women (and men) giving up perfectly respectable and often well paid jobs in favour of the unsecure world of self-employment? The reasons are I suppose many and varied but in my case (and yes, of course I am one of these risk takers –...

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