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The pandemic induced shift to remote and hybrid working gave us the chance to completely change the way we work. We had a golden opportunity to create a new paradigm, with more freedom, flexibility and autonomy. Yet just two years later, far too many companies appear to be falling into the same old trap, with ‘digital presenteeism’ becoming an increasing problem.
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Tariq Rauf
08.02.2022
Climate fintech is a cross-cutting sector covering the intersection of climate, finance and digital technology. It includes a range of financial product innovations, applications and platforms that serve as mediums between all stakeholders to catalyse decarbonisation.
07.02.2022
There’s a common misconception around brand loyalty. Customer loyalty is often attributed to how well they align with your brand values. Sure, this is important. But your brand values are a beacon to bring people in. You build connections with your customers every day through regular interactions. The shift to automated customer service threatens to undermine that connection.
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03.02.2022
Visionary, confident, outcasts, impulsive – these are all common stereotypes about startup leaders. But what qualities does a successful leader in this realm really need to have?
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Michał Schindler
01.02.2022
The words 'debt collection' have for a long time carried a whole load of negative connotations. From the customer's perspective, being contacted by a debt collector often brings on feelings of shame or embarrassment, despite the fact that most people fall behind on payments due to unexpected life events.
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Amon Ghaiumy
27.01.2022
Last year will be unique in many ways, but one thing that will be repeated in 2022 is that hiring will still be tough. Unlike previous economic shocks there is no big pool of talent that has lost their jobs. We still have significantly less qualified people per job opening, so you’ll need to work hard to capture the right people.
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Alan Furley
25.01.2022
Right out of the gate, 2021 felt like the year that the world of late-stage investing was turned upside down. The invasion of non-traditional investors (“NTIs”) such as Private Equity Firms into the startup funding scene scrambled the rules about valuation and metrics that venture capitalists and entrepreneurs had spent decades refining.
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21.01.2022
Recent research from Handshake has revealed that 67% of Gen Z professionals no longer believe they must have in-person interactions with professional connections to form meaningful relationships.
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Bradley Foster
18.01.2022
Much has been written about the astonishing rate of change within the financial services (FS) sector. The rapid proliferation of fintechs, the rise of banking-as-a-service (BaaS), and the many innovative new financial products and services on the market are remarkable, and to the tech-savvy and financially stable reader, this can only be good news, right?
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Ion Fratiloiu
18.01.2022
The freelance industry has accelerated in the last decade, with more and more people opting to escape the traditional 9 to 5 working routine or make some extra income on the side.
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Alejandro Turell
12.01.2022
As Richard Branson once remarked, "If you ask any successful businessperson, they will always have had a great mentor at some point along the road."
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Lucci Levi
11.01.2022
Although freelancers make up more than four million people, a massive part of the British economy, they have long been undervalued and overlooked. Being self-employed can offer flexibility and autonomy in a number of varied sectors. However, significant stigma and snobbery around self-employment remains.
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Derek Reynolds
06.01.2022
The virtual events space blew up during the pandemic, with platforms like Hopin being valued at $7.75B when just two years old. A number of other hybrid and virtual event platforms have mushroomed over the last 12 months, with most of them optimised for the lucrative conferences, expos and webinars market.
05.01.2022
The language we use to describe ourselves and others has the power to attract, and alienate – the latter often unintentionally, and even when such descriptors come from a place of progress.
04.01.2022
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