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Posts from ‘December, 2012’

LAST WORD – Learning Business Lessons from Mistakes

By Jo Haigh Learn from your mistakes and move on, is a great business mantra but as such depends on two crucial things. Recognising and acknowledging the mistake Being able to move on. The fact is, mistakes happen in business. Sometimes they are completely unforeseen; sometimes they are like a ‘car crash’ waiting to happen. […]

2013 – Business As (not) Usual?

The Chancellor of the Exchequer set out the growth expectations of the Office for Budget Responsibility in his recent Autumn Statement. From a slight contraction in the current year, growth is excepted to return gradually over the next few years against a backdrop of continuing austerity. Growth is expected to come from businesses like yours. […]