Q&A with Andrew Kerr: how you can help shape Edinburgh’s future October 11, 2016 | City Talk Edinburgh’s residents, businesses and partners are being invited to help shape the capital’s future under the 2050 Edinburgh City Vision project. We spoke to City of Edinburgh Council chief executive Andrew Kerr to discover more. What is the 2050 Edinburgh City Vision? Edinburgh has always been known as a city of innovation and change. The last 30 [...]
FCA commits to having 50/50 gender split in its senior leadership team by 2025 October 11, 2016 The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has unveiled a new set of diversity targets as part of an effort to show its commitment to inclusion. The City watchdog published targets for the Women in Finance Charter, which it signed in June 2016 and announced its Black, Asian, minority ethnic (BAME) targets for 2020 and 2025. Read [...]
Closing the confidence gap for women in the City October 10, 2016 "Be more confident, speak up” was the advice a female friend received during her performance review. Later she was told she’d been “too aggressive” when challenging a point during a meeting. Perhaps she overdid it. Either way, it makes you question whether contradictory advice and male stereotypes of success could be causing confidence erosion, particularly [...]
WANdisco announces another boardroom shakeup as it appoints new non-exec director and interim finance SVP October 10, 2016 WANdisco's share price was up 7.4 per cent at the open after the company announced another boardroom shakeup this morning. The software developer has appointed William Grant Dollens as non-executive director. Dollens, 37, is currently managing member at Global Frontier Investments, a US-based investment manager, and portfolio manager for Global Frontier Partners, a shareholder in WANdisco. [...]
Work cited as biggest cause of stress in people’s lives October 10, 2016 Ever-increasing workloads and long hours mean more than half of employees cite work as the biggest cause of stress. The pension and benefit consultant JLT Employee Benefits found 55 per cent of 120 people surveyed thought work was the most stressful part of their life, followed by money at 19 per cent and family at 13 per cent. Just [...]
Govcoin’s co-founder Robert Kay explains why his firm is using blockchain to change the lives of benefit claimants October 10, 2016 "When you get into this technology, you can let your imagination run wild with it. But as an entrepreneur, you have to focus. You can use a new technology to help those that can pay the most for it, or those who will benefit the most from it. It is our view that distributed ledger [...]
Is it time to take your business prospecting? October 10, 2016 Before the seismic events of this summer, it was clear that we modest Brits needed to be more proactive in our pursuit of commercial opportunities overseas. British firms are trailing behind bolder European counterparts when it comes to developing relationships abroad, with recent LinkedIn data showing that less than a third (31 per cent) of UK [...]
Deutsche Bank and Citi use this personality test to find ‘millennial talent’ — take a look October 7, 2016 Companies as varied as Deutsche Bank, Reebok, and Airbnb are turning to Seattle startup Koru to help them recruit graduates. Koru, founded in 2013, uses machine learning and predictive analytics to predict whether candidates will be the right "fit" for a company. Applicants are made to take a 20-minute online test that measures seven personality [...]
Stop skipping after-work drinks: Scientists say getting along with your colleagues is good for your health October 7, 2016 Time to stop skipping that post-work pub trip on “health” grounds: a huge new study has shown getting along with colleagues makes us feel better and prevents burnout. Psychologists found workers strongly identifying with their workmates had a positive impact on mental health and performance. The study found the same health benefit when employees strongly [...]
Rugby lessons for succession planning October 7, 2016 Business, like rugby, is a team game that keeps evolving. When Clive Woodward won the Rugby World Cup in 2003, rugby was a kicking game. Now it is a power game and it has taken a new style of leader in Eddie Jones to make England competitive again. To win on the global stage demands [...]