By: Harriet Green

I am City A.M.'s deputy business features editor. I look after the Entrepreneurs page, Alternative Finance and our Office Politics section. I also help out with the Forum, running our daily debate. I have a special interest in distributed ledger technology. Prior to working at City A.M., I ran a social enterprise.

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How to nail team bonding when you work in a virtual office

May 5, 2016

Businesses no longer live in one space. Even small firms regularly have employees in offices (or home offices) spread around the world. From startups to large corporations, the growing levels of work flexibility, improving technology and new concepts such as the talent cloud mean that people management is no longer confined to the office space. [...]
Crowdfunding platforms beware: The banks – and others – are eating your lunch

May 5, 2016

European crowdfunding platforms could be left fighting for their piece of the pie. Incumbent financial players, including asset managers and banks, not-for-profit organisations, and non-financial firms are entering the crowdfunding business in increasing numbers. Recent research that I conducted with Politecnico di Milano’s Massimiliano Guerini, Evila Piva and Cristina Rossi-Lamastrais analysed the proliferation of crowdfunding across [...]
How crowdfunding is giving exciting businesses the chance to do a “top-up” round – and why they need to be careful

May 5, 2016

Choosing how to finance a company at any particular stage is a complex decision, with no simple, right answer. We are an app-based provider of beauty services to your home, operating in London. Since launching in 2013, we have raised over £5m from angel investors, which has enabled us to build two flagship stores and [...]
Mindfulness: Why it matters to business more than you think – and a taster exercise anyone can try

May 4, 2016

Historically, the majority of leadership development has focused on tangible areas such as leadership competencies, skills and behaviours – what we call a “cognitive approach to learning”. These are all clearly very important, but they are not the whole story. Emotional learning matters. Consider, for instance, someone who is almost exclusively bound to the technical [...]
Introducing the DAO: The organisation that will kill corporations

May 3, 2016

Imagine a world where companies didn’t exist. Instead of corporate entities being brought into existence through statute, networks of individuals would work, co-operate and generate wealth via DAOs – decentralised autonomous organisations. The hierarchical, centrally governed organisations we’re all so familiar with would not be needed. This is the world that the creators of the [...]
How to make every you meeting you have an absolutely joy – all you need is a Mote

May 3, 2016

Meeting? Joy? The two words don’t sit easily together for any of us. And imagine being in the shoes of chief executives like Bob Dudley, facing down shareholder opprobrium in that most formal of meetings, the AGM. At least these happen only once year. If only that were the case for the many other meetings [...]
Google Ventures’ new silver bullet for team work – and how you can use it in your firm

April 29, 2016

How do the best teams in the world achieve so much? What’s it like being part of a lead team at Google or Uber? Google Ventures Design partner Jake Knapp has spent years working out what makes a team the most effective and productive it can be. The result is his new book Sprint, co-authored with [...]
The death of Aim: Can equity crowdfunding eclipse the LSE’s junior market?

April 28, 2016

The alternative finance market enjoyed near triple-digit growth last year, with the value of its loans, investments and donations hitting £3.2bn. Within this, the main sub-sectors of peer-to-peer lending and equity crowdfunding significantly increased awareness of the concept of lending directly to individuals – excluding those entities like the banks which have for too long dominated markets [...]
How alternative finance is making supply chain finance sexy – a Q&A with C2FO’s Colin Sharp

April 28, 2016

The world of alternative finance is increasingly varied. There are property equity crowdfunding platforms, remittance firms with Wikipedia payment models. Specialist lending products are growing in popularity and some firms are looking at blockchain technology. Platform C2FO is focused on helping to bring liquidity to business supply chains. It gives companies visibility of their entire [...]
Why you need to be far more careful when making notes

April 27, 2016

Of all the information your colleagues shared with you yesterday, how much do you remember? What happens to the rest? There is a limit to what we can take in. Our brains cannot store, let alone process, all the facts that cross our path on an average working day. If the information is in a document [...]

Two top flight clubs in same league to be owned by same firm after major sport decision

Premier League’s smallest stadium gets approval to begin £90m rebuild

This hotel on the Elizabeth Line is 30 minutes from London but feels totally remote

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