If you've spotted the name of one of your employees on the BNP membership list that's been made public, the worst thing you can do is dismiss them on the spot.
An entrepreneur to celebrate in Global Entrepreneurship Week is Paul Barry-Walsh. With his flop of straight dark brown hair and faintly crumpled trousers, Barry-Walsh looks like a perennially youthful sports master at a minor public school.
Do you have an autocratic management style Perhaps you favour a more laid back approach" Here are three leadership theories. Which one best suits you?
On Monday’s episode of Dragons’ Den, entrepreneur Richard Mire was told his Screen Machine product was a “ridiculously stupid, crazy idea”. But despite the Dragons’ venomous attack, Mire hasn’t been put off.
When Tim Perutz joined the family business, Nimlok was in poor shape. Within two years he’d taken the firm into profit, and cracked 55 countries worldwide.
Lincolnshire farmer Alex Albone set up Pipers Crisps in 2004. Today, he produces 75,000 bags a week – but downright refuses to supply major supermarkets. “As long as I live, I won’t sell to Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda or Waitrose.”
Husband and wife team Andrew and Debbie Keeble launched Debbie & Andrew’s sausages in 2001. Now their Yorkshire-based outfit is pumping out sausages like, well, a sausage factory, and making a meaty profit to boot.
Entrepreneurs up and down the country have been watching back-to-back episodes of Only Fools and Horses, gleaning top tips from the wheeler-dealer himself.
In 2004, sisters Haleh and Golnar Abivardi opened Swiss Smile, a private dental clinic, in Zurich. Today, they have clinics in St. Moritz and London, employ 200 people and, with a turnover of £10m, have plenty to smile about.
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