Last night I was at a network event where the speaker was talking about brands – in this case aspirational or “must have” brands. As she was explaining how to buy jewellery at auction ( yes – even in these cash strapped times. Did you know that it can cost one third of retail prices [...]
In the current job climate with job losses being talked about more and more and the unemployment rate ( here in the UK anyway) rising the time has come for many employees to think about what they could do next should they find themselves out of work.
But… I regularly hear people say that they have [...]
Hearing late last night that Lloyds TSB was to take over Halifax Bank of Scotland has really made me think. We are living in interesting – and downright difficult – times and business casualties are inevitable. I have been trying to work out why this one has had such a personal impact on me.
I clicked on [...]
A new run of the Channel 4 series “The Secret Millionaire” started last night. For those of you who have not seen previous series the basis is that a “millionaire” goes undercover and looks for projects doing great things to which they choose to donate some of their fortune.
Last night the story was of James [...]
In discussions with my colleagues at Napier University this afternoon we got onto the subject of employee engagement to be included in a project on developing new managers. Then I found this interesting article in HR Zone.
But it was one of the comments that really caught my eye. The story in the post is about how a [...]
