If you’ve been sitting under a rock for the last few years, you may not have heard about ‘growth hacking’. It’s a phrase coined by serial entrepreneur and angel investor Sean Ellis in 2010, after he used it to rapidly grow LogMeIn, Eventbrite and Dropbox. Each of those companies are now worth billions of dollars.…
DetailsThere comes a time in every business’s life where it’s necessary to expand. When it’s time to focus on new revenue opportunities. Increased demand on you and your employees means hiring new staff…or does it? Hiring a virtual PA can be a smarter, more profitable move that can actually help grow the business and bring…
DetailsIn the US it has led to #timesup – a movement supported by the National Women’s Law Center which now claims to have over 200 volunteer lawyers and a $20-million subsidiary to support lower-income women seeking justice for sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. #metoo has even inspired movements started by men, aimed at…
DetailsIf there’s one thing we’ve learnt from our clients and their businesses, it’s never to cut corners when it comes to talent. It sounds like a cliché but only because it’s true: if you want to be the best you need to hire the best team. Choosing to use a recruitment agency to find the…
DetailsMany of the skills we develop in life are unconsciously fostered business skills. However, once we enter the world of work, our new surroundings can confuse our instincts, placing otherwise normal behaviours into the context of the “professional.” This distinction can throw us off, putting unnecessary pressure on a situation as we try our best…
DetailsSelling the benefits of green energy is reassuringly easy. Following President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, the leaders of France, Germany and Italy refused his assertion that the deal could be ‘renegotiated’, pushing through the original deal in spite of American withdrawal. Undeterred, Merkel’s spokesman Steffan Seibert tweeted: “now more…
DetailsIn 2016, over $26.7 billion was lost to credit card fraud, with up to 46% of Americans being affected in the past 5 years. Not only this, but more than 976 million data records were lost or stolen during data breaches last year, with the business sector accounting for 45% of this figure. With statistics…
DetailsIn a recent article by The Guardian, a study was cited examining the jobs most at risk of automation. Conducted by Drs. Carl Frey and Michael Osborne, the paper concluded that jobs such as loan officers, taxi drivers and telemarketers were most at risk of automation, whilst musicians, physicians and psychologists were the least at…
DetailsThe snap election this year marked, for many, another torrential shift in the political landscape of Britain. What was labelled by commentators as a tactical move for Theresa May’s cabinet brought about a surge of support for the opposition, as droves of previously unengaged citizens voiced support for Jeremy Corbyn and his Labour party manifesto.…
DetailsRecruitment consultants and agencies don’t always have the best reputation. Have you ever been contacted by a recruiter for a job that doesn’t suit your skillset? Or bombarded with inappropriate CVs for a position you are seeking to fill? Unfortunately, if you haven’t had a negative experience yourself, you probably know someone who has. Finding…
DetailsAnyone producing content of any kind has likely encountered a ‘wall’ at some point in their life – a moment of impasse at which all creative capacity seems to abandon them and they are left feeling frustrated and useless. For writers, this is conventionally called ‘writer’s block’, and whilst in some cases it can last…
DetailsSociety offer us opportunities throughout our lives, often, in the form of new challenges, and daunting as they may be, we must meet them head on if we are to thrive. This paradigm of the professional world is no different, from the time we get our first job to the point where we might consider…
Details(Number 4 will shock you!) In my last post I explored some of the key faults in Uber’s business strategy and its relationship with the company’s scandalous reputation (clickbait translation: How one student single-handedly brought down Uber’s Empire). Having done that, I thought I’d turn my attention to the more frivolous but no less contentious…
DetailsThe concept of populism is in its simplest definition a self-effacing political virtue. Perhaps for this reason, something as simple as “concern for ordinary people” is striking a chord with voters across the globe in an ever-shifting geo-political landscape. However the word these days is more likely to be used when describing the meteoric rise…
DetailsHow to avoid Uber’s ‘Hobbesian’ business model. Despite modern connotations, the term meritocracy was first coined by Michael Young in his satirical essay ‘The Rise of Meritocracy’, depicting a dystopian future society in which the brightest and best have risen to the top and hardened into a new ruling class. As a supporter of the…
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