8+ hour, 19+ min ago  (463+ words) Many individual businesses in the UK are a force for good, supporting communities and wider society, adding value and operating with purpose as well as profit. Business as a collective in the UK can be a force for good, but…...

8+ hour, 27+ min ago  (687+ words) Britain's high streets are dying in plain sight, and into the empty units left behind by honest traders are marching organised crime gangs disguised as businessmen. That may sound dramatic, but anybody who spends time in towns and city centres…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (823+ words) Late payments are one of the key reasons otherwise viable small businesses and medium sized enterprises find themselves forced into increasingly risky borrowing simply to survive. They are one of the hidden pressures quietly driving company directors and business owners…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (686+ words) I spend a lot of time at conferences, awards, networking events and business panels. Some are brilliant. Some leave you wondering if women disappeared overnight. You know the ones. Five men on stage discussing leadership. A "future of tech" panel…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (419+ words) One million young people in the UK are not in education, employment or training. What are we going to do about this shocking statistic? First, we need to understand how we got here. The number of young people disconnected from…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (459+ words) Growth begins when you stop reacting to external pressure and start improving what you control: the systems, standards and structure inside your business. Most businesses don't stall because of what's happening outside them. They stall because of where the owner…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (849+ words) If there is no struggle, there is no progress." Frederick Douglass The most dangerous moment in any organisation is not crisis. It is overconfidence in stability. That is the silent point of failure most leaders never see coming. Most turning…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (839+ words) Data has always mattered in business. But what companies do with it, and how quickly they act on it, has never mattered more. For most of the last century, strategic insight was the preserve of a select few. Senior leaders…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (540+ words) For Yoto, the children's audio platform behind the popular screen-free Yoto Player and Yoto Mini, that moment came as the business expanded internationally." Founded in London in 2017 by Ben Drury and Filip Denker, Yoto was built on a simple idea:…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (960+ words) The only thing that's sure about a business plan is it's definitely not going to happen." The founder of YO! Sushi! , YOTEL and the YO! Company took to the stage for an honest and often hilarious fireside chat that traced…...