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Whats Your Christmas Party Personality?

Extrovert or introvert – Excessor, Repressor or Intellectual. How will your personality type influence your choice of Christmas celebration?

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The Secret to Dealing With Difficult People

Do you have someone at work who consistently triggers you? Doesn’t listen? Takes credit for work you’ve done? Wastes your time with trivial issues? Acts like…

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Why do so many mergers fail?

Corporate mergers and acquisitions have even higher failure rates than marriages and that over half of them have destroyed shareholder value. According to research from KPMG,…

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Funding a growing business

The first port of call for budding business owners is finance. Traditionally, there are three routes that you can go down; personal investment – either your…

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Property 2.0: Britain’s Property Innovation

I spent eight of the formative years of my life in California – often trekking between university and work in Los Angeles and friends and family…

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What Makes Superheroes So Super

Although they are all blessed with extraordinary prowess, superheroes possess a power that doesn't get enough attention. In my view, it is their entrepreneurial spark that…

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The Value of Being “Weird”

In the 1930s, Hedwig von Restorff, a German psychologist, made an important, though not very counterintuitive, discovery: things that somehow stand out are remembered more easily…

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Is It OK to Yell at Your Employees?

Steve Jobs. Jeff Bezos. Martha Stewart. Bill Gates. Larry Ellison. Jack Welch. Successful. Visionary. Competitive. Demanding. And each with a well-deserved reputation for raising their voices.…

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Giving it away – and how it makes you grow

“There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.” Oscar Hammerstein II, Lyricist…

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