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- Recession-Buster BrightHouse Has No Magic Formula
- The BNET UK team has just had a meeting with Leo McKee, CEO of BrightHouse, to pick his brains on how to create a recession-busting company. BrightHouse is a rent-to-own electricals, white goods and furniture retailer, based in Scotland, the north of England and Wales, which targets the sort...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
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- BNET UK Wins Best Launch
- Apologies in advance, but we're going to do a little crowing:it's barely a year since we launched BNET in the UK, but the new website's already scooped Launch of the Year at the Association of Online Publishers Awards 2009 in London. CBS Interactive had a good night...
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Best of British BNET
- Welcome to BNET UK, the one-stop shop for busy managers in search of fresh thinking and practical advice on all areas of business. A week ago, you may have noticed the addition of our new UK blog, Sterling Performance, and the BNET UK team hopes you will...
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- PwC Study: Gen Y Just Like Everyone Else
- The Find: The much ballyhooed differences between Gen Y and older workers are largely a myth, claims extensive new research. The Source: Research from PricewaterhouseCoopers entitled "Millennials at Work" The Takeaway: The media storm over the supposedly revolutionary Gen Y (also known as the...
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Brits are Ashamed to be in Sales
- Bashful salespeople are failing to engage buyers, says a DDI global sales survey, "Is the Sales Force Delivering Business Value?" The French and British are most ashamed of being in sales, while the Germans are the least, says the survey. It also identifies the qualities buyers most...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Weekend Roundup
- Sunday Times Darling's blueprint to end the banks' casino culture The Chancellor will this week publish legislation that allows bankers contracts to be ripped up by regulators and their employers fined for encouraging too much risk-taking. The bill, which will be included in the Queen's speech on...
- Blog posts 2009-11-15
- The West Underrates China's Managers at its Peril
- UK managers underestimate the skills of their Chinese counterparts, says Management Issues, reporting on the Institute of Leadership and Management's report, 'Global Management Challenge: China vs the World'. The western perception of Chinese management is outdated, says the ILM -- we see China's as a place where...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Weekend Round-Up
- Sunday Times Alistair Darling acts on bank bonuses: The Chanceller of the Exchequer will be summoning the remuneration committee chairmen of the big four banks to a meeting this week to warn them they must adhere to guidelines established agreed by world leaders at the G20 summit...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- How to Prepare for a Directorship
- Board memberships are no longer the ceremonial roles of yesteryear. But the rewards are great for the business person who wants to help mold and move a modern company forward. Understand How the Boardroom Has...
- Articles 2008-10-15
- Rising Demand Puts Green Businesses in the Limelight
- Vodafone's pledge to halve its CO2 emissions by 2020 shows enlightened self-interest. Nice as it is to be green, it also "makes business sense", as Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin said. InterfaceFLOR, a flooring manufacturer, made a similar, albeit more ambitious, commitment. Its "Mission...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- No Flex Please, We're British
- An overwhelming majority of employees want the option to work flexibly. But just 22 per cent of UK companies extend the offer to all employees, according to a research paper by Avaya entitled 'Flexible Working in Europe and Russia'. Even so, British employers are better than their...
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Giving with One Hand...
- Proven: altruism will make you happier. This should cheer Arpad 'Arki' Busson of hedge-fund investor EIM, who is just about to hold a fundraising dinner for his seven-year-old charity ARK ('Absolute Return for Kids'). The annual shindig is famously high-powered -- last year Busson...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- How Your Stuff Reveals Your True Self
- It's all too easy to give things away. While talking to executive coach and author Marshall Goldsmith I begin at least four sentences with 'but' -- which means I'm discounting what has just been said and revealing a streak of impatience, he says. It's one of those...
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Undercover Boss: What One CEO Has Learned
- Stephen Martin, chief executive of Yorkshire-based property development company Clugston, took part in Undercover Boss, shown on Channel 4. He jumped at the opportunity to work incognito as a labourer to understand the company at grass roots, but what happened once the cameras disappeared? Here what he...
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Talkbiznow Targets Business Networking
- Talkbiznow.com's CEO Martin Warner has been making the tech start-up rounds: raising money, talking to the press, raising money, working to attract customers, raising money. The company is trying to position itself as a new approach to using social networks in business, adding such software services as blogging, webinar facilities,...
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- When Outsourcing is Just Plain Stupid
- When Outsourcing is Just Plain StupidBrilliantAn astute and well-written response!RE: When Outsourcing is Just Plain StupidHaving been a magazine editor/publisher, I totally and absolutely agree 100% with CC Holland.RACIST!You are just being racist and xenophobic. I know you have the right to express your self, but at the end of...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Tara Hunt: The Whuffie Factor
- [caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Tara Hunt"][/caption] Tara Hunt is a name that means a lot to Social Media experts but enterprise marketers should be familiar with her earlier attempts at promoting a new form of marketing philosophy entitled Pinko Marketing, the aim of which was to prolong...
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Kellogg's Loffler: US Still Top Dog in Biotech, But Regulatory Reforms Needed
- If President Obama's address last night is any indication, health care reform and cost containment will be among his administration's highest priorities after this pesky economic and financial meltdown subsides. Alicia Loffler, the Director Kellogg Center for Biotechnology Management, is teaching many of the future leaders who will...
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Do Hunters Hate Farmers?
- Do Hunters Hate Farmers?Hunters and FarmersHello, I have joined the Bnet network yesterday only. I was searching for the sales strategy for my company, a retail broking firm and happened to find your site while searching on the google. My short experience tells me that maintaining an account is a...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-13
- Workplace Bullying: A Management Primer
- Workplace Bullying: A Management PrimerRE: Workplace Bullying: A Management PrimerThis is a very important article on Bnet because it addresses a very important issue in workplaces today. Not many of us are fortunate enough to have a good workplace without interventions in terms of harassment. Fewer still are lucky not...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-28
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