
Bright future ahead in 2013 for small business in the UK
The small business community Enterprise Nation has put together its predictions for business trends in the UK in 2013. They point to a year in which…
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth

The small business community Enterprise Nation has put together its predictions for business trends in the UK in 2013. They point to a year in which…

Mary Clarke, CEO of Cognisco, a human capital risk solutions company comments on how the banking sector could minimise employee risk and help improve their damaged…

Now that's a spectacular early Christmas present for the Chancellor, and more importantly for more than 80,000 people, who are no-longer listed as being out of…

Modern-day Christmas festivities aren’t always the joyous occasion intended: financial pressures are magnified and a somewhat artificial situation is created. Just like during summer holidays, family…

Lots of people like the idea of investing in property – and that’s a good place to start, but it’s not enough to enable you to…

Many business coaches suggest we tell everyone our business goals – it makes them more real and it forces accountability. But according to Jessica McGregor Johnson…

So there we have it, the Chancellor’s third Autumn Statement. So what did we at the FPB think about it from an SME perspective?

I recently noticed a fellow professional speaker post on his Facebook page that a potential client had told him that the fee he wanted to charge…

With the Christmas break nearly upon us, I’m finding a lot of people asking me: “Andy, how can I use the Christmas break productively, so that…

Success results not from adding things to your life but from letting go of them.

You cannot escape intellectual property law in the news at the moment. Recently Cadbury’s won the right to use Pantone 2685C exclusively on chocolate bars and…

It is crucial to monitor the performance of your business in real time, rather than waiting weeks and months for the accounts after year end.

Doug Richard’s long-awaited report into apprenticeships could have been written by me, or I suspect any other employer who truly understands the benefits to businesses, individuals…

The way we as a society communicate has changed fundamentally in the last decade. The growth of social media and the internet has brought vast opportunities…

At some point in the recent past – was it when the utilities began treating complaints as a benchmark for consumer satisfaction? – the word sorry…