Is gender equality top of your agenda? June 14, 2019 Professional women often attend networking events as a way to meet like-minded female professionals. These forums are a great platform to exchange advice, not just on how to survive in the workplace, but how to change it for the better. But they also serve as a sobering reminder that there is still a lot that [...]
This Father’s Day, give the dads in your office a real gift June 13, 2019 A shirt with the word “legend” plastered across the front? A trio of “bad boy” chili sauces? A customisable BBQ branding iron? Father’s Day really is an object exercise in gifting tat. Such tokens are inconsequential and ephemeral – destined for a cluttered kitchen drawer. Better to get dads something they actually want. Simply, more [...]
Most Help to Buy beneficiaries ‘did not need scheme’ June 13, 2019 The government’s Help to Buy scheme has been accused of subsidising existing homeowners, after it emerged most people who have bought a house using the programme could have done so without it. A National Audit Office report today said three-fifths of buyers could have bought a property without the support of Help to Buy, “but [...]
Investment Association calls on industry to act on racial diversity June 13, 2019 The Investment Association has called on the industry to act to increase the number of black asset managers working in the sector Companies should modernise recruitment processes, establish mentoring schemes and networks, and improve education on inclusion, the Investment Association said in a report published this morning. Read more: LGIM’s gender parity fund drives boardroom [...]
These are the four criteria for judging the next Tory leader June 12, 2019 And then here were ten. Nominations closed for the leadership of the Conservative Party on Monday. What had appeared to be turning into a grand melee – where it appeared easier to identify which Tory MPs were not running rather than were, so prolific was the announcement of candidatures – instead became a manageable scrum. [...]
What the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse can teach you about crisis communications June 11, 2019 IF YOU know your biblical stories or are simply enjoying the joint BBC-Amazon TV adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens, then you will be familiar with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death. But rather than heralding the end of the world, how could this quartet of characters [...]
CEOs take note: No one knows what you actually do June 11, 2019 In an age when the leader of the free world promotes himself as the CEO-in-chief and the New Establishment leaders of Silicon Valley appear like celebrities in the public consciousness, it would be reasonable to assume that society understands the role of those who lead business. On the contrary: over half of UK workers admit [...]
Meet Blenheim Forge, the blacksmiths supplying quality kitchen knives to London’s top chefs June 10, 2019 TUCKED away in a railway arch beneath Peckham train station lies a workshop. Here, the blacksmiths of Blenheim Forge toil away making kitchen knives. But these are not just any old blades. These are handcrafted Japanese-style knives – and the cheapest model starts at £160. There’s no better endorsement for a product than knowing who [...]
Would you want to be trained by an AI? June 7, 2019 By 2025, five billion people will be connected to each other through four billion smartphones and 50bn other devices. This will produce new data at unimaginable rates. Add in exponential growth in artificial intelligence (AI) – which is predicted to generate 1.7MB of data for every person every second by this time next year – [...]
The world needs minds of all kinds, so neurodiversity is crucial to business success June 7, 2019 Being on the neurodivergent spectrum is often perceived as a weakness. But given that those with neurodiverse brains are some of the world’s most creative, productive, and forward-thinking people, this is something that should instead be embraced as a real opportunity. An Acas study estimates that one in seven people is neurodivergent, which simply [...]