The Real Reason SME’s won’t Hire

So, I was just reading about the Beecroft review (again) and they have completely missed the point.  Yes, its probably a good idea to extend the unfair dismissal period to 2 years.  In some jobs it could take a year or more to really get a rocking performance out of someone and if you were […]

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Keeping positive in tough economic times

I am sure that you, like me, have had days, or weeks or even months or years in your business that have felt tough. Whatever the state of the economy there are always ups and downs in business and some things are more challenging than others. Whether it’s losing a client, or a member of […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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