Have you ventured into central London lately? It’s a far cry from the vibrant, bustling hub it was before lockdown. There are fewer tourists, fewer shoppers and, notably, fewer city workers as many workplaces remain closed and people continue to work from home. But for how long? In light of PM Boris Johnson's latest announcement, perhaps not very long at all.
20.07.2020
Cleo McGee both investigates and ignites the debate of how feminism is instructive in bringing about good leadership skills and qualities. As a word 'Feminism' brings about a great deal of emotion and provokes thought in people, here Cleo illustrates her thoughts on navigating it.
17.07.2020
If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to find a big problem and solve it. But if you stop there, you might just wind up being the inventor of an amazing solution that no one ever uses. As Joe Procopio suggests, that is probably not your goal.
14.07.2020
Instead of looking for traits to emulate, focus on ones to avoid. The first successful person I ever met — truly successful, with accomplishments I admired and ambition I strove to emulate — was an entrepreneur in his forties, a client of mine in the first real business I’d ever started. I was 24 and eager to learn; he was constantly cheerful and had more money than he could count.
14.07.2020
You have a mind-shattering headache. You’re standing in the aisle of your local CVS pharmacy, massaging your temples while scanning the shelves for something — anything — to make the pain stop. What do you reach for? Tylenol? Advil? Aleve?
08.07.2020
It used to be you sold someone a product, handed them a wordy and confusing manual, and then walked away. You can’t do that anymore. It doesn’t matter if you’re selling a suite of productivity applications or an exercise bike, the level of user complexity baked into the average product increases perpetually and exponentially. Because it can.
07.07.2020
The human mind is wired to seek patterns, whether to identify potential threats or aid learning or even to stay calm in a crisis, these patterns are everywhere. Ramsey Theory states that if there are enough elements in a set or structure, a pattern will emerge within it. These two rationales can be used to explain where conspiracy theories come from; the human necessity to find links and meaning in text, events and disasters, in short: our brains.
06.07.2020
With such an uncertain outlook, how can individuals and businesses prepare for the range of possible outcomes that could play out as we navigate through the crisis and enter into a post-pandemic era? Rohit Talwar, Futurist, Strategist and CEO of Fast Future shares his four scenarios.
02.07.2020
Moving beyond the well-established trope that failure is key to success, Joe Procopio goes further to ask why failure is important and how the seeds of failure become of roots of success.
16.06.2020
Since schools across the UK closed at the end of March amid the COVID-19 hysteria, parents everywhere have been feeling the strain of setting up an effective home education system for their children.
04.06.2020
Thanks to the COVID-19 crisis and the move to mass remote working, meetings are now a very different experience. Think about the last few meetings you attended. Were they well organized? Did the meeting start on time, have an agenda and conclude with practical actions?
03.06.2020
David Odier of LaunchMappers explains why deploying a team of freelancers can be a more effective way to keep your business functioning and growing than more traditional agencies or in-house alternatives.
02.06.2020
Start planning for emerging from the lockdown now to avoid the same mistakes. No one was ready for the Coronavirus — not the government, not the medical community, not the business community, not you, not me. No one.
02.06.2020
Victor Snyder, consultant at BossMakers and columnist at Forbes and Entrepreneur shares his reasons why companies that aren’t leveraging their data run the risk of losing customers.
25.05.2020