What graduates really want from jobs
A lot of people talk on behalf of graduates, usually reeling off survey statistics to reveal what they really want from their first significant jobs and how that’s different from previous generations. Four in five consider corporate purpose highly important to their choice of employer, for example, while 25% plan to run a company of […]
Will you make staff wear masks?
Freedom Day has a ring to it, in a Daily Mail front page kind of way, and it’s easy to see why everyone’s looking forward to it so much. No one likes being told what to do, particularly if it’s burdensome – and 16 months of mask-wearing and maintaining frankly unnatural degrees of personal space […]
5 books for leaders during LGBT Pride
A central feature of inclusive leadership is the capacity to understand the people you lead, and empathise with their experiences. That’s hard to do from a distance. Most of us will have LGBT employees, in many cases in large numbers, and any effort to be inclusive of them will necessarily begin by listening to them. […]
How to go hybrid without losing key talent
When the pandemic prompted lockdowns last year, businesses were forced to begin a remote working experiment at a scale that would have seemed unfeasible just weeks before. The verdict of that experiment? For the most part, we’ve been able to function perfectly adequately and productively from home, in some cases more productively. But the office […]
Plastic Waste: What You Can Do
It’s hard to watch a nature documentary these days without feeling just a little guilty. Rightly, David Attenborough and co no longer just show breathtaking, slo-mo HD videos of the natural world; they also show the extent to which we’re collectively trashing it. The guilt can be professional as well as personal. After all, business […]
Why actions speak louder than words
A year ago this week, a white police officer choked the life out of a black man on a cold Minneapolis pavement. It took 9 minutes 29 seconds. Bystanders filmed it and tried to intervene, as the man being murdered repeated “I can’t breathe”, but the policeman’s knee remained on his neck. George Floyd’s killing […]
Data is no substitute for sense
The phrase ‘data-driven’ is becoming a pet peeve. Like ‘action-oriented’ or having a ‘growth mindset’, it’s a little too commonplace for its own good. And not to ruin the party, but I’d rather not be driven by data, thank you very much. This is not a Luddite position. There’s no denying how powerful data is. […]
Single people: A neglected customer segment?
More and more people are living alone, with major long-term consequences for retailers. Not to start your Easter break on a downer, but did you know that 42 per cent of marriages now end in divorce? It’s particularly common after Christmas apparently, with witty lawyers cheerfully labelling January 2nd ‘Divorce Day’ due to the post-festive […]
The Power of Recommerce Fashion
If you pay attention to fashion trends, you’ll know that this season is going to be huge for… well, pretty much the same as the season before it and the one before that. This is because fashion trends are simply a marketing ploy as old as the hills, providing a sparkly temporal wrapper for style […]
How will cannabis legalisation affect the alcohol industry?
In light of the recent changes to marijuana legislation in the US, there are grounds to believe cannabis might become a serious threat to the alcohol industry. This scenario is heightened by the growing numbers of young people shunning booze. A recent NHS study revealed the proportion of 16-24-year-olds in the UK who state they […]
