Ladies who don’t lunch: Maike Currie talks to Hermes Investment Management’s Harriet Steel about success, failure and building things May 26, 2016 Most people detest building. Whether it’s a new build, extension or renovation, chances are it will feature somewhere on the list of life’s more stressful events, perhaps only a few notches below death, divorce, starting a new job and moving home. Harriet Steel, global head of business development at Hermes Investment Management, however, relishes it. [...]
Get ready to meet your new co-worker…in seven weeks’ time May 25, 2016 Good news: if you've been using the empty desk next to you as extra storage space for piles of paperwork, a study out today suggests you have a while before you'll need to tidy up. A survey of financial services executives by recruiter Robert Half discovered that it takes an average of seven weeks to [...]
Screen it out: How to stop distractive devices from sapping your productivity May 25, 2016 We live and work in a technologically-driven world, and tech does not come without its challenges. We now receive and process more than double the amount of information per day as we did 20 years ago, and this explosion has profoundly affected our wellbeing. Read more: Employees lose a staggering amount of time to stress – [...]
Matthew Syed: What doctors, pilots and F1 drivers can teach us about failure May 24, 2016 When it comes to analysing the reasons why a particular business or entrepreneur has succeeded or failed, hindsight is a wonderful thing. It leads us to ignore the role of luck, put talent on a pedestal, and treat every event in the story as one in a causal chain which led inevitably to a particular conclusion. [...]
Bosses feel the strain on their entrepreneurial motivation and drive as work woes increase May 24, 2016 London's top executives are being beaten down by regulatory issues and the daily grind of corporate life research out today has revealed. This is having a knock on effect on entrepreneurial motivation and drive, according the survey, commissioned by London-based private bank Kleinwort Benson. The YouGov poll shows that 39 per cent of senior executives [...]
Fraud with Problems: Ravelin boss Martin Sweeney talks Hailo, fake credit cards and machine learning May 23, 2016 "There’s a real tension at the heart of fraud detection: if you want to stop online fraud, just switch everything off.” Martin Sweeney is, of course, being facetious. But fraud, he impresses, has become an accepted fact of the on-demand economy. “We as consumers are accepting that most of the things we buy have a premium [...]
Contagious content: Don’t Panic’s Joe Wade on why Jon Snow, GoPro and The LAD Bible hold the secrets to making a video ad go viral May 23, 2016 A number of advertisers have won a Cannes Gold Lion. But few can claim a Bafta on top of it, and say they’ve dug up the lawn of a former frontbench MP. “We wanted to repackage social and political issues in a different way,” says Joe Wade, film-maker and co-founder of Don’t Panic London, speaking of [...]
The key to a good meeting: Why you need to start doing things on the move May 23, 2016 We all know what it’s like. A meeting is called and you can see at least an hour disappear from your day. Unfocused meetings are a drain on productivity, with research estimating that only 44 per cent of meeting time is actually valuable to a business. What’s more, the average office worker spends nine hours each [...]
Salaries and bonuses at London banks, ranked from best to worst – plus who’s paying their staff most fairly May 20, 2016 One size rarely fits all, especially, as a study out today has discovered, when it comes to bankers' pay. The research by Emolument.com, which crunched the numbers on 1,433 salaries, found that paypackets for associates at 18 of London's well-known banks varied by up to £73,000 while the highest paid managing director (MD) is pocketing around £571,963 more than [...]
Fidgety millennials: How to stop the mid-management exodus May 20, 2016 When you think of a “millennial” worker, do you think of a recent graduate, or somebody who you have worked with for years who is running their own team? The label covers anyone from 21 to 33 years old. While there has been considerable focus on how to attract graduate millennials into the workforce, there [...]