A colleague asked me the other day how we get so much of our business without cold calling. I said to her – ‘Well, you see, I think the rules that apply to networking are a bit like Christianity’. She replied ‘Networking is like Christianity? What?!’ Most of my colleagues think I am slightly off […]
Reverse snobbery never works!
OK – so picture this. I went to (at the time) the only non fee paying girls grammar school in Manchester. To get there you didn’t have to have money, it wasn’t about your social class or who you knew (good job cos we knew no-one!!). All you had to do to get into this […]
The fuel crisis and human nature
So the fuel crisis might have been averted for now. As a good friend of mine said to me yesterday – I drove past the petrol station and saw all the people queueing for petrol and I wondered if they had too much time on their hands… I liked the sign outside a pub on […]
Women on Boards – Sort it out Guys…..or the EU will do it for you!!
As I have been saying for some time, we need to sort out the issue of the lack of women in senior management posts and on boards. We need to do this for 2 very good reasons. 1. There are numerous studies which prove that companies with diverse boards make more profit. We could stop […]
Banks miss lending targets to small business. No Shit!
OK, lets be real. Did anyone out there ….I mean ANYONE ANYWHERE expect the banks to hit this target?? If they did they must be living in lala land. The banks say they “only” missed their SME lending targets by 1.1 billion. Oh – well thats OK then!! Can you imagine what that 1.1 bill […]