Category: This Is How I Run My Business

Skills Minister John Hayes today announced that social entrepreneur and jeweller Jason Holt will head-up an employer-led review examining what more can be done to help SMEs take on apprentices.

Danielle Stewart, a partner at Baker Tilly, has been appointed by BIS as one of their two Company Law Red Tape Challenge Champions.

In the run-up to the Olympics in London this summer, many businesses are looking to harness this Olympic spirit for their employees. But how can businesses translate the winning performance of Olympians to their teams?

Many say that Sex sells and no company exemplifies that more than Ann Summers, Jacqueline Gold, the CEO of Ann Summers discusses the future of her passionate and empowering brand

We spoke to Dr Rahul Nanda, Global Chairman of TOPSGRUP securities, about his vision is set on becoming the number one brand in the global security space and a US$ 10 billion security group by 2020. What motivates him and what advice would he give to anyone wanting to follow him?

Tim Campbell, winner of the first series of BBC TV’s The Apprentice, has received an MBE in the Queen’s 2012 New Year Honours list.

Lord Alan Sugar and Sir Richard Branson were chosen in a survey by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) as the senior business leaders that the majority of managers would like to shadow for the day.

Ambitious fashion-lover Hannah Buckley who abandoned a successful career as an accountant to follow her dream and launch her own high street fashion website earlier this year, has ended 2011 by winning a national award to recognise her achievements.

In light of the recent events surrounding executive burnout and mental health issues – both in business and in sport – we asked West Ham United Vice-Chairman Karren Brady if, more than ever before, the pressures of football were mimicking those present in the corporate world.

When asked whether they believe they have the skills and experience to start up, nearly forty per cent of working aged females say they think they do, while a quarter agree that there will be good start-up opportunities where they live in the next six months. So why are so few women taking the leap into entrepreneurialism?

Carole Stone, author, broadcaster and founder of YouGovStone, has won the inaugural Institute of Directors and O2 ‘Britain’s Best Connected Woman’ prize, as voted for by delegates at this year’s Women as Leaders Conference.

Twenty three year old Arnold Du Toit has been named the winner of the PC World Business competition to find Britain’s best young entrepreneur.

Claire Young, the straight-talking, no-nonsense finalist from BBC1’s The Apprentice has been using her experience to promote entrepreneurship and enterprise to our younger generation since leaving the show. She is now set to takes that one step further with the launch of the new youth initiative Teenbiz, which provides funding to entrepreneurs aged 13 to 18 years old.

Vote for the outstanding leaders in British business – the National Business Awards in partnership with Orange have announced their five nominees of the Orange Leader of the Year award.