Business outlook: Small business leaders reveal trends and predictions
Small business leaders share the trends that have emerged in their markets in 2020, how they’ve innovated to stay ahead and what they’re doing to prepare for 2021.
Tag: Business Lessons
How leading innovation at Unilever shaped my business journey
When people think of catastrophic business fails, they never mention quiet deaths. They seldom mention the damp fizzles and soft launches that didn?t pick up the necessary traction. Here are the lessons I learned at Unilever.
How having kids made me a better manager
By Staff writer
“Becoming a mum is the best thing I have ever done. Setting up my own business is the second.” Here’s why Petra Smith, founder of Squirrels&Bears?believes being a mum makes her better in business.
Lessons from the Google walk-out: Why businesses need structural change to topple toxic masculinity
Google’staff walk?outover treatment of women. What can UK SMEs learn from this” Do women still need to shout about equality in the workplace
Brand marketing lessons SMEs can take from Victoria Beckham
London Fashion Week isn’t only for retail brands and those with deep pockets. There are lessons SMEs can take from the fashion festival, regardless of the industry they operate in.
Want success in China Be a Manchester United, not a Chelsea
By Staff writer
With almost 1.4bn consumers, it’s not just Premier League clubs that are eager for success in China many UK businesses see the country as a huge growth opportunity. But there’s a right and a wrong way to enter the market, as Chelsea FC found out the hard way.
Four simple truths I’ve learned in ten years of business
By Staff writer
Some ten years ago, Caffeine opened its doors to stimulate growth for its clients. In that decade, we have worked with impatient leaders from companies of all sizes and sectors, done interviews for several books we have published and, of course, run a business which has in its own humble way grown steadily since we started.
Founders Diaries: Introducing CV-Library MD Lee Biggins
By Lee Biggins
With a ?9,000 loan in his back pocket, Lee Biggins has grown CV-Library into an impressive outfit and will be sharing his journey with Founders Diaries.
Techniques spies use that can double up as management lessons
Hollywood has lovingly told us spies live in a high-tech, guns-blazing world filled with an incredible amount of car chases. But there are plenty of management lessons business leaders can learn from spies apart from the gleaned 007 tips of buy a fancy car and suit.
21 business lessons from Luke Johnson
By Kate Bassett
Investor and former Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson gives 21 essential lessons for growing your business.