What a headline… H&M fined a cool 35 million Euro for excessive employee surveillance. This includes extensive staff surveys (covering details of holidays, medical symptoms & diagnoses for illnesses). In some cases they even sought private details from informal chats (including family issues & religious beliefs). This information was then stored and used to evaluate

This current restricted situation is causing organisations to reassess their business model… Some tweaking how they provide products, others pivoting to provide complementary products, many closing offices to homework, and retailers closing stores to do more online sales. 5 years ago, we did all these things at once… Brought on by 3 strategic inflection points

Thank you soooo much…. Customer office technology solutions agreed in September mean another 27 trees will be planted in our quest to help reverse climate change & deforestation. Individuals, business & organisations who sign up to any of our printer technology solutions, internet phone packages or laptop with Microsoft Office 365 bundles. Get their very

Mark Manson’s 2nd book ‘Everything is F*cked’ was surprisingly about hope… And this, his 1st book, ‘The Subtle Art of not Giving a F*ck’ is about giving a f*ck, but selectively, and explains why people should not worry or care about every damn thing. I don’t know why I’ve read them this way round. Wait.

What does it mean to innovate and disrupt your market or industry? As defined by Wikipedia a disruptive innovation creates a new market and eventually disrupts an existing market, displacing established market-leading firms, products, and alliances. So, to be a disrupter is to create a product, service, or way of doing things which displaces the existing market

When it comes to business supplies & customer service, there are plenty of companies that talk a good game… But Paul, Daniel and the team at My Total Office Solutions make it happen. Over recent months I’ve placed numerous orders, and each was received by a friendly member of their team and processed immediately. Goods

What I’m about to discuss with you is very scary… A few years back we got a loan from Zopa for home improvements, and we’ve been saving hard to pay it off early to save on interest charges. At the weekend we finally had enough to settle it. But they were closed, so we communicated

Business leadership teams (even today) can learn so much from 17th century Pirates… As Peter Leeson details in his University of Chicago article (The Law and Economics of Pirate Organisation), the economic situation pirate ships confronted crucially shaped their organisation. Pringle (historian) described a pirate ship like a “sea-going stock company”. As a result, they

It can take years of searching before finally realising your vision … Don’t get despondent in tough times. Be brave, persevere and keep going, like Siddhartha Gautama. ‘Who’s he?’ Siddhartha Gautama was born in the 6th century (B.C.) in Lumbini (now present-day Nepal) and belonged to a large clan called the Shakyas. One day a