Posts Tagged ‘politics’

The Political Side Of Funding A Start Up November 3, 2009 No Comments

Last month, at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, David Cameron set out his perspective on the British entrepreneur. He said that they were the party to, “release Britain’s potential”. A little pretentious perhaps, but could he be right? Anyone looking into ways of funding a start up will certainly be more than a little [...]

Lessons Learned From The Expenses Debacle June 10, 2009 No Comments

Opinions on the embarrassment stemming from the expense claims of politicians have split the business community right down the middle (although most would be a little nervous to let on that they are anything other than outraged, given the media feeding frenzy that has ensued). But how important are ethics in the corporate world these [...]

Building The Shaky Pedestal Of Expectation February 13, 2009 No Comments

It was an historic day. Remember it well, because events that truly shape the world in which we live are few and far between. But now along with the moon landing, the fall of the Berlin wall and the day The Birdie Song was released, we can say that we remember the day that Barack [...]

Winning The Marketing War November 25, 2008 No Comments

It’s official. Barack Obama is to be the 44th president of the United States of America, after an “against all the odds” campaign in which even he admitted “I was never the likeliest candidate for this office” in his acceptance speech in Chicago on Tuesday night. So how did this young, relatively inexperienced senator achieve [...]

Success From The Most Unlikely Beginnings November 21, 2008 No Comments

No matter where you live in the world, and no matter how hard you may have tried, you could not have escaped the media fest that has been the election trail of the US presidency – much the same mud-slinging contest as it always has been, but with one rather surprising twist. Barack Obama, at [...]