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Opinion

The price of talent

I often wonder about how serious companies are about getting the best staff.

Opinion

Leadership

The burden of leadership

When I started my own company there were days when it just wasn't happening.

Opinion

Decisions in Whitehall

The media hysteria over “swine flu” – what happened to bird flu and the millennium bug? – provides a distraction from a nasty first quarter for businesses.

Opinion

Death of the newsagent

Newsagents are being put out of business by supermarkets, but how much should we care?

Opinion

The PLUS side of flotation

PLUS-quoted is more than holding its own in a difficult market struggling to launch growth businesses, writes Jonathan Pearce of Marriot Harrison.

Opinion

How green was the Budget?

Riccardo Segat, CEO of cleantech-focused investor Amplio Partners, rates the Budget on its commitment to green issues.

Opinion

Springing back into action

Maybe it was Easter Holiday sun, spring daffodils, or the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ campaign, but business is proceeding somewhat normally.

Opinion

The morning after

There was a point this year when you could be forgiven for deciding to make yourself a placard, paint "The End is Nigh” on it, and start pacing the streets, exuding the resigned confidence of the damned.

Opinion

Springing back into action

Maybe it was Easter Holiday sun, spring daffodils, or the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ campaign, but business is proceeding somewhat normally.

Opinion

The morning after

There was a point this year when you could be forgiven for deciding to make yourself a placard, paint "The End is Nigh” on it, and start pacing the streets, exuding the resigned confidence of the damned.

Opinion

Growing the green economy

Beating your head against a brick wall hurts. If you don’t believe me, ask the entrepreneurs operating in the cleantech and renewable sectors

Opinion

Growth will come from cleantech

We are currently witness to the biggest heist since the Europeans raided Inca gold.

Opinion

Beating the odds

It's easy to be frightened by statistics. Take this week's assertion that one in 56 businesses will fail this year, and one in 50 in 2010.

Opinion

Recession buster

Last month, I wrote about the recession and said the predicted 2.5 per cent fall in GDP should not necessarily be a cause for widespread doom and gloom.