Margaret Thatcher and Boris Johnson may be gone, but the delusional curse she baked in Bruges, and that he delivered with gusto in Downing Street, still holds party and country in malevolent thrall.
Many employees add significant value to the businesses they work for – sometimes multiple times what they cost their employers – but very few are aware of it.
John Power is the founder of Aerogen, a Galway-based global leader in its niche. John's unconventional story has a lot to say about building a great business.
All around the world, sporting organisations are sending players out to play more and more matches except in one place, where they have cut the money-spinning season back to six months. Nobody else would surrender so much of the season.
Vegan Sandwich Co was just getting traction at farmers’ markets when Covid hit. Its home delivery fall-back rescue plan is now just one of many channels for Sam Pearson’s business, which is raising funds for the next steps of its growth.
Online retailers' ability with data is an important reason why they're crushing their bricks-and-mortar retail competition. For this reason and others, it's hard to see offline retail coming back – in fact, healthcare is about to see the same disruption.
The urge to sell stocks when things get scary is powerful – and toxic for returns. Over a lifetime, it might cost you more than a third of your pot.
The nativist storytellers are increasingly dominant. Stories are powerful. The tribal story especially so. We know this. But like many elsewhere and before us, are we also powerless to resist its dangerous allure?
Creating people who can build things starts and ends with education. Yet, our system is designed to take the one-in-a-million extraordinary people and make them mediocre before they’ve even had a chance to realise the scale of their potential.
Not all victims of coercive control will experience physical violence, nor will their abuse be so well-documented and they need to be acknowledged and protected too.
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