by Viola Lloyd | May 30, 2017 | -Featured Video, News, Video of the Week
Zeina Bain shares her advice on approaching your career like a business strategy – and the key ingredient is investment. “I’ve been in the same position for a long time in terms of where I work and a lot of times, you sort of look up and go, ‘Should I be...
by Viola Lloyd | May 22, 2017 | -Featured Video, News, Video of the Week
Simon Colbeck, formerly of Marks and Spencer, recognised that being great at generating ideas is all very well, but you need people with different skills to shape and then deliver them. “Everyone has the ability to be good at managing innovation, but the first thing...
by Viola Lloyd | May 8, 2017 | -Featured Video, News, Video of the Week
Roger Mavity, former CEO of the Conran Group, describes the loneliness of starting an advertising agency, and how his very determined business partner kept him going. “The greatest challenge for me without a doubt was starting my own business, because when you work...
by Viola Lloyd | May 3, 2017 | -Featured Video, News, Video of the Week
Laura Tenison of JoJo Maman Bébé explains why you should ditch the hard sell if you want your business to succeed. “It may seem strange, but as a retailer I don’t believe in the hard sell. In fact, I abhor it. What I like is to be educated, I like to be...
by Viola Lloyd | Apr 25, 2017 | -Featured Video, News, Video of the Week
Bill Rollo, formerly of the British Army, says you’d be amazed at just what your people are capable of. They can perform way beyond what they think they can! “When we arrived in Kosovo, the whole Serb administration had left. So everyone – from local government...
by Viola Lloyd | Apr 18, 2017 | -Featured Video, News, Video of the Week
Clare Gerada explains why she has learnt to ignore arbitrary deadlines, in our video of the week. “I’ve been given lots of advice in my career, but I think the most useful advice I’ve ever been given is that deadlines are man-made, so you can always leave...