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Everline Future 50 list success for Academy member Red WigWam

The Academy for Chief Executives, the UK’s leading executive coaching and mentoring organisation, welcomes the news that Red WigWam features in the Everline Future 5O list for Disruptive Businesses in the UK. This top accolade was awarded on 4 March and Liverpool recruitment company Red Wigwam takes pride of place alongside  50 of the UK’s […]

Secrets of Success – Richard Bandler interviews Academy CEO Andrew Morris

Part of the Secrets of Success series. NLP expert Richard Bandler finds out what Makes Andrew Morris so unique in business. “Creating and developing a successful business is the goal of every budding entrepreneur and for over 25 years Andrew B Morris has been doing just that; today he’s meeting Richard Bandler who will uncover […]

Entrepreneurs – encouraging the engine of development by Charles McLachlan

Although George Bush famously said that the French have no word for entrepreneur, the entrepreneurial spirit is represented in every nation and culture in the world. However, depending on the cultural context, the way it is applied can be an enormous power for good or continue to buttress the forces that hold back the development […]

Enterprise – ‘The Sturdy Horse pulling the Wagon’ by Jeremy Thorn

Winston Churchill once said: “Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot at: others as a cow to be milked; but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon” . Isn’t that a great quote? In some countries, striking out on your own in business is widely […]

Every business needs an entrepreneur by Jeremy Marchant

When George W Bush was reported to have said “the French don’t have a word for entrepreneur”, my how we laughed. Yet the common French usage of the word is far more bland than its common usage in the UK. According to Wikipedia, a French economist, Jean-Baptiste Say, is believed to have coined the word […]

The Importance of Being Entrepreneurial by Brian Chernett

This week, from 15th November until 21st November it is Global Entrepreneurship Week and we need entrepreneurs more than ever. Back in July, I wrote about the need, “we are in the process of emerging from a global recession that has seen high levels of public spending around the developed world. In the UK, and […]

Real Life Experiences: Leaders learning from each other

New South London area Academy Chairman, Peter Lynagh, was delighted to be given the opportunity to discuss the launch of his local leadership group by South London Business recently. The interview which follows is reproduced on our blog, with their kind permission: The Academy for Chief Executives (ACE) has recently started a new group in […]

North West Academy for Chief Executives offers challenging advice for local businesspeople at Autumn events in Manchester and Preston

The Academy for Chief Executives North West region is offering local businesspeople the chance to ‘Eat their Ugly Frog first!’ with three free events this autumn – in Preston and Manchester. Says Alan Dean, Chairman of the Academy group in Cheshire, Merseyside and Manchester ‘With challenging times for business right now we wanted to offer […]

Engagement – A Vital Component To Recovery Post Recession – by David Smith

High Performance Is About People Many CEOs I speak to are concerned about re-engaging with their workforce post the ravages of recession. Some have had serious cost cutting to perform, some people have been on reduced compensation packages, and some have seen substantial redundancies taking place, leaving those remaining suffering from what has euphemistically become […]

Thought Leaders and How They Emerge by Philip Hesketh

Whenever people are formed into a group before long a natural leader emerges. You only have to watch an episode of Big Brother or The Apprentice to witness this happening. There’ll be one person who either takes the initiative in a task and organises the troops, or in the case of Big Brother, steals a […]