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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Latis Homes founders Robert Luck and Krishan Pattni talk dream designs and planning nightmares

August 10, 2014

Without the regulatory constraints imposed on our housing market, between 1974 and 2008, average house prices would have risen from £79,000 to £147,000, rather than to £226,000. That’s according to a new report by Christian Hilber of the LSE and Wouter Vermeulen of UV University that looks at the impact of supply constraints on house [...]
The skills you’ll need at every leadership level

August 10, 2014

Most of us intend to climb the career ladder, and there’s no shortage of advice about the skills you need to succeed as a leader. But which ones matter most, and how can you ensure you keep improving them? Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, chief executive and president of development consultancy Zenger/Folkman, surveyed over [...]
The parking app that’s going to change how you drive

August 7, 2014

Did you know the average driver wastes 106 days of their life hunting for a car parking space? It's pretty depressing, but one London-based company is on a mission to make life better for drivers. JustPark, an online platform that lets you park wherever and whenever, has just announced a global first in motoring technology: [...]
What the extreme survivors can teach us about business

August 5, 2014

It’s important to manage your emotions and have an achievable goal. We're all used to picking up work – even life – tips from the business greats. But what about other exceptional groups? As business and lifestyle blogger Eric Barker recently pointed out, there is much we can learn from extreme survivors – people [...]
Gimme 5: Blogs for entrepreneurs

August 4, 2014

The Entreprenurial Mind This is the blogging home of Jeff Cornwall, chair of Entrepreneurship at Belmont University. He gives his advice on setting up a business, how to grow, entrepreneurial financing and business ethics. www.theentrepreneurmind.com Copy Hackers The brainchild of seasoned copywriter Joanna Wiebe and skilled website optimiser Lance Jones, Copyhackers provides practical ideas and insight [...]
Fatal attachment: Dotmailer’s Tink Taylor talks automation, dinner parties and kitesurfing

August 3, 2014

How long could you survive without email? Estimates of how many are sent globally every year range from 100bn to 200bn. And every year, dotmailer’s founder Tink Taylor gets asked the same thing: is the death of email just around the corner? It’s a question he finds laughable. Recent research by Gigaom found that 86 [...]
How to make the most of to-do lists

July 30, 2014

Be ruthless and think small – but don’t forget to include the unusual and personal niggles. They are the little lifesavers that many of us have out of both habit and necessity. A 2008 Microsoft survey found that nearly 70 per cent of Brits keep at least one to-do list, and report that they [...]
Which books do the giants of business read over the summer?

July 29, 2014

You might be surprised how many older volumes make the cut. Most of us look at our summer holiday as reading prime time. Indeed, research from TripAdvisor found that, for nearly one in four of us, it’s the only time we manage to read a book. And even if you read more regularly, a [...]
Get the most out of the new kind of career ladder

July 28, 2014

Think lengthways, and start experimenting in your current position. Getting on in the working world has never been so important. But is it still an environment where climbing the ranks yields the best returns? According to Priscilla Claman, president of Career Strategies and Harvard Business Review contributor, linear career ladders haven’t existed in most [...]
In a field of his own: FarmDrop’s Ben Pugh talks crowdfunding and the future of our food

July 27, 2014

In the time it’s taken FarmDrop founder Ben Pugh to discuss his company with me, it crowdfunded £13,000. After just eight days on crowdfunding platform Crowdcube, FarmDrop raised more than its £400,000 investment target. A new way of doing food is, it seems, quite popular. The FarmDrop concept is simple: it streamlines the food [...]

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