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FACING UP TO THE FEAR OF FAILURE May 25, 2011 AUTHOR ASK what was holding me back and I can tell you immediately: fear. Fear of failure, in fact. This self-fulfilling mental condition is a disaster for too many careers. I wrote What’s Stopping You? out of frustration with this and the self-help universe. I saw a disconnect between what the psychologists stated were our [...]
CAREERS NEWS | IN BRIEF May 25, 2011 CITY WORKERS TO EARN MORE THIS YEAR Financial services professionals expect to earn an extra £4,900 this year, costing their employers an extra £3.1bn. According to research from financial services recruiter Marks Sattin, professionals in the sector expect a 13.5 per cent salary increase in 2011, supplementing an 8 per cent increase last year. In [...]
An exclusive way to sample the simplest, best Gallic food May 25, 2011 AS dinner parties go, this one’s a bit different. Over to my left sits double Michelin-starred chef Claude Bosi of Hibiscus, on the right is Joel Antunes of South Bank’s acclaimed Brasserie Joel and opposite him is Russell Norman, the rising star of London’s restaurant scene with his hugely popular “Venetian tapas” joints Polpo, Spuntino [...]
Bunny-tails to be shaking once again May 25, 2011 Finishing touches are being applied to Mayfair’s prettiest new face, where Hugh Hefner plans to evoke the golden age of his empire – the Playboy Club London on Old Park Lane soft launches tonight. Would-be Don Drapers will absolutely adore this extravagant and exclusive establishment, where gentlemanly desires such as dining, drinking and gambling will [...]
Learning from mistakes for success May 25, 2011 ADAPT BY TIM HARFORD Little Brown, £20 by Philip Salter THE “undercover economist”, Tim Harford has a new book out: Adapt. Its central theme is the examination of failure and success, reasoning that a bit of the former is vital to achieve the latter; and even when you are successful, in order to keep it, [...]
Fancy yourself as a top chef? Sign up to The Big City Cook May 25, 2011 WE’VE all been there – Sat in front of the television watching “Masterchef” frustrated, as yet another builder/housewife/Z-list celebrity turns out a deflated soufflé. Suddenly the thought pops in to our heads: “I could do better than that.” Well soon, the suffering could be over. September sees the launch of The Big City Cook, a [...]
Lagarde announces IMF candidacy May 25, 2011 Christine Lagarde has announced her candidacy to be the next head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The French finance minister had been an early favourite to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who resigned last week to fight sex assault charges in New York. Lagarde has the support of much of Europe but emerging, co-called BRIC countries [...]
Flights resume as ash cloud clears May 25, 2011 Flights resumed across the UK today rescuing the travel plans of hundreds of thousands of Britons. Air traffic controllers Nats said the country was expected to remain clear until at least 7pm of high levels of ash from the eruption of Iceland’s Grimsvötn volcano. Icelandic weather officials also said no ash plume has been seen [...]
FTSE dips on eurozone fears and slipping commodities May 25, 2011 The FTSE 100 dipped today as jittery investors lost confidence in commodities and remained nervous over the eurozone debt crisis. With raw material prices dropping amid concerns over a slowdown in China, riskier assets were being shunned. Shares in commodities giant Glencore fell as much as three per cent on their Hong Kong trading debut [...]
UK economy grows at 0.5pc May 25, 2011 The UK economy grew by 0.5 per cent in the first three months of the year, official figures have confirmed. The figures were the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) second look at the GDP data, which were first published last month. Although the manufacturing and service sectors had performed well, the ONS said construction continued [...]
