IT consultant ordered to pay £50,000 after being accused of stealing Soho House members’ personal details
Private view: On the market in St James’s this week July 9, 2015 BEAU HOUSE, SW1Y Prices start at £2m A collection of seven apartments ranging from one to three bedrooms fashionably located above Daks in Jermyn Street. Developers Dukelease and Oliver Burns say the design takes inspiration from Beau Brummell, a Regency style icon, whose statue still resides on the same street. Due for completion in 2016. [...]
Calling first-time buyers to Telegraph Works, Greenwich: The historic transatlantic cable factory being turned into new homes July 9, 2015 A CGI of the building. Apartments from £300,000 A little-known factory that sits near the Greenwich Docks once played an instrumental role in US-UK relations. Now developers are hoping it’ll establish a new relationship between this neglected former industrial site and first-time buyers in London. Around £120m has been invested to build 272 [...]
Contemporary luxury comes to the North Bank: The Westminster penthouses that are challenging traditional power architecture July 9, 2015 Westminster has drawn the pious and powerful for a millennia, but the only homes to service them seem to be stuffy period numbers with no central heating and little natural light. Sure, there’s plenty of Old England charm in a Georgian terrace, but it’s hardly the height of modern luxury anymore. Interiors from the [...]
Three things to learn from failure: set-backs can lead to success July 9, 2015 Acknowledge what went wrong and recognise that set-backs can lead to success AS A general rule, the US Marines will act if they are 70 per cent sure of a decision. Like in business, there are no guarantees of success, but there are times when you need to act anyway. Failure is never an [...]
Three tips for improving your public speaking: Use your speech to tell stories and put statistics on slides July 8, 2015 Now in his sixth year as chancellor, George Osborne’s performance delivering yesterday’s Budget was perhaps his most assured yet. It is no secret that confidence increases with practice, but public speaking remains a bete noire for many of us. Pitches and presentations are an increasingly important part of professional life, so what can you do [...]
Will the Greek crisis hit your investments? Investors will be just fine July 7, 2015 As the Greek financial crisis rolls on for another week, many investors will be wondering whether the situation will have an impact on their portfolios. On the ground in Greece, the situation is little short of catastrophic. Banks have been closed for over a week and ordinary people are scrabbling around for cash to fund [...]
How to identify groupthink in your company: A lack of disruptive ideas can lead to a sense of invincibility July 7, 2015 From the Bay of Pigs to the Enron scandal, “groupthink” has been blamed for poor decisions and excessive risk in military strategy and business alike. Coined by Irving Janis in 1972, it describes a team’s favouring of consensus and dismissal of both critical evaluation and radical alternatives. But how can you distinguish between a cohesive [...]
The OECD on Greece: The country desperately needs reform – CNBC Comment July 6, 2015 Ahead of the weekend’s resounding “no” vote out of Athens, the main Greek stock market had had a surprisingly good second quarter: it was up by around 3 per cent, outperforming major European indexes such as the UK’s FTSE, down almost 3 per cent; Germany’s Dax, down almost 8 per cent; and the French Cac, [...]
Preparing for a workforce bred on mobile: Technology must become second-nature for firms to attract talent July 5, 2015 In case you missed the news, the Teletubbies are returning to our TVs. And they’re sporting a new look – they are now complete with touch screen bellies. Considering that (most of) the audience won’t be able to speak properly yet, this is a telling sign that the UK is now fully immersed in the [...]
Why it’s time firms gave job titles the sack, says The7stars: An obsession with hierarchies is no good for any business July 2, 2015 Talent delivery specialist, digital prophet and chief happiness officer all have something in common – they are ridiculous, but very real, job titles. For decades, people have used job titles to assert authority, get a leg up the pay ladder and define their role. But these increasingly meaningless monikers have no place in a modern [...]