Given the self-destructive actions of Wayne Rooney, the possible lacks of judgement by Dr Liam Fox, Oliver Letwin, Tony Hayward and countless other high profile people in recent years, the comment by Dylan Evans when reviewing Robert Kelsey’s book What’s stopping you?: “Why do talented people sabotage their own chances of success? Often the answer is that they are afraid of failure“,...
No, this isn’t a rant about the rising problem of inner-city shoplifting, nor is it about the moral issues surrounding looting in the aftermath of a natural disaster when governments and aid agencies fail miserably in the role they were created for. This is my rant about how the looming elections in the UK are likely to affect new business funding, and whether we can expect any help from this or any subsequent...
The driving force behind any economy is employment, and with the vast majority of people in most countries employed by small businesses it is essential that the flow of enthusiastic young ventures is encouraged at all costs.
According to the annual Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), which has been analysing entrepreneurial efforts for the last 11 years -and in its 2009 survey looked at 53 countries, we may be...
A study carried out by Kingston University suggests that small businesses are not only surviving the recession, they’re positively thriving in these unsettled times. Of the 343 companies involved in the study around 48 per cent have maintained or increased their profits. Not bad when the predictions were that small businesses would suffer horrendous losses in this recession.
It is true that the very survival of...