Career Advice – Page 14
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Analysis and FeaturesFive tips to help SMEs recharge during lockdown
For the past nine months many founders have been operating on sheer adrenaline, and they’re starting to burn out
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Comment and OpinionEstablish your startup’s values, and find practical, fun ways to bring them to life
There’s a point in every startup’s journey where you go from a small group of colleagues working at the same table to suddenly having ‘functions’ and ‘functional heads of..’
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Comment and OpinionAn ACE way to escape the eternal nightmare of bad meetings
The reason people don’t want productive meetings is because they’d have to do more work
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Comment and OpinionHow to deal with the email monster and make your working life easier
Some 320 billion emails are sent every day. Were you ever shown how to use them?
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Comment and OpinionHow brands can help enable positive parts of the ‘new normal’
Lockdown has given most of us time to reflect on the way we live and has created some behaviours that could actually be beneficial
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Comment and OpinionThe trust formula: where do you or your colleagues fall down?
Some bright spark has now defined trust, with an equation
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Comment and OpinionBecoming a B Corp: a way to validate our sustainable mission
We are all united in the belief that business should be a force for good
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Comment and OpinionHow to deal with the ‘Zoom Doom’ and maximise meetings
Online calls and online meetings are the norm because of the pandemic
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Comment and OpinionHow we managed to secure a national listing with Waitrose
Last week, after years of hard work, Rubies in the Rubble launched our hero product Tomato Ketchup into 287 Waitrose stores
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Comment and OpinionAs consumer choice returns, brand values will remain important
In such unusual times, businesses have been forced to make quick decisions
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Comment and OpinionHow customer-focused marketing has helped guide our priorities
Learning from previous recessions, the brands that succeed will be the ones that maintain marketing investment
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Analysis and FeaturesGuide for SMEs: Five small brands on coping with the coronavirus pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has made being at the head of a fast-growing food & drink SME more challenging than ever. But these five brands have proven it is possible to cope
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Comment and Opinion‘Business as usual’ - build, as well as adapt, your company
It’s essential that current innovations are not in conflict with companies’ fundamental business principles
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Comment and OpinionHow decisive changes and a clear brief help in challenging times
Furloughing staff is a decision no one has taken lightly. Those that remain must try to turn the ship around
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Comment and OpinionHow small brands can stay in touch and get creative during lockdown
Nothing could prepare a small business for this – but we need to keep positive, says Rubies in the Rubble founder Jenny Costa
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Comment and OpinionJoe Lycett’s Hugo Boss jab is a warning to businesses: know your place
The recent furore surrounding Hugo Boss sends an important message of self-awareness to all businesses
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Comment and OpinionHow finding the right business structure has set us up for the next stage
This is my last column for The Grocer, so I’m reflecting on how much I’ve enjoyed it and how much I’ve learned
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Comment and OpinionMy 10-year challenge: how the past decade has changed the way we work
Much has changed in 10 years, from technology to the attitude we take towards our careers
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Comment and OpinionUnexpected benefits: how our café brought us joy… and insight
The café mirrors my experience of the whole Rude Health journey – full of spontaneity, serendipity and determination
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Comment and OpinionHow The Very Hungry Caterpillar provides business inspiration
Our business has done its feasting, and now it’s time to enter a ‘chrysalis’