
The world of work has changed, and it hasn’t all been good – or is it just another generational thing. I can remember my Father bemoaning the end of national service and today I often hear the gripe about millennials…
The world of work has changed, and it hasn’t all been good – or is it just another generational thing. I can remember my Father bemoaning the end of national service and today I often hear the gripe about millennials…
What a way to end Year 6 and start Year 7 – the JBN Congress, an IoD Mastermind, an Annual Lecture, Sales training delivery, an evening with Elton John and working my passage between Corsica and Sardinia on a 41-foot…
The question was asked by an MD over dinner and discussed (at length) by the other MDs at the table – we referenced the good, the bad and the ugly experiences we’d had. It covered vision, mission, values and behaviours…
In the summer of 2017 Burberry made the headlines for having destroyed £28m of (unsold) stock to guard against counterfeits – a practice understood to be common across the retail industry. According to the Times, more than £90m of Burberry…
It’s that time of the year again when employers say THANK YOU to their employees under the embarrassment-free guise of Christmas … and why not? I’m one for tradition, but I’m also one for saying thank you as and when…
“UK retailers are on course to dispatch a record 900 million orders in 2014, with 120 million orders predicted for December alone” (IMRG MetaPack Delivery Index) and if you and yours are anything like me and mine, that’s a lot…
In 2000 I was responsible for the launch and performance of a transactional website, ably supported when they weren’t doing their day jobs, by 2 from IT and 2 from marketing. Back then it was about securing an online presence,…