The 6Ms of Business Strategy
The 6Ms of Business Strategy Interview with Shweta Jhajharia Shweta Jhajharia MBA is a business coach specialising in growth. She has been ranked ActionCOACH London’s Coach of the Year consecutively for the last eight...
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From eBay to own brand – #Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso is a very interesting and inspiring millennial. Why? She is the founder of one of the fastest-growing retailers in the world, Nasty Gal and has written #Girlboss, a book about her and...
Words to Lead By: David Mellor
David Mellor is a mentor who helps business owners to increase their profitability, fund their growth plans, and free up their time. Mellor, a Freeman of the Guild of Entrepreneurs, shares the best piece...
An entrepreneur’s business journey – Interview with Ronke Lawal
Ronke Lawal is the founder and director of Ariatu PR, where she works with start-ups and entrepreneurs on opportunities to publicise and promote their businesses through marketing campaigns and press and media engagement. Ronke...
The Family Business Model: What Can We Learn from It?
Over 80% of private sectors companies in the UK are family businesses, with the majority of them being small – micro in some cases – and medium enterprises. Even though they represent an important...
A practical guide to win-win
The Financial Times Essential Guide to Negotiations This book gives you what it promises on the front cover – how to achieve win-win outcomes in all your business deals. A straightforward, practical guide that...
Borrowing the future from our children
Young people have been seen as well as heard in Scotland of late. At the recent Scottish Parliamentary elections earlier in May, young people aged 16 and 17 voted for the first time in...
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow by Ron Chernow
Boomy Tokan recommends Chernow’s autobiography of business tycoon and ground-breaking philanthropist John D. Rockefeller. John D. Rockefeller was an extremely shrewd businessman, and when it came to his philanthropic activities he was a great...
Business approaches for tackling poverty
Scaling up Business Solutions to Social Problems: A Practical Guide for Social and Corporate Entrepreneurs – Olivier Kayser & Maria Valeria Budinich The authors suggest that some of the most sustainable and scalable solutions...
Doing good, doing business – Unseen Tours, London-based social enterprise
Social enterprise is a dynamic and inspiring way to do business, it’s an exciting and fast growing sector, a movement not just in the United Kingdom but around the world. Social enterprises are businesses...
Business strategies for start-up growth – Interview with Boomy Tokan
Boomy Tokan, business adviser, business growth specialist and teacher, talks to Eszter Molnar Mills about his key tips for business start-ups, and his passion to help people to achieve their dream of starting and...
Big Data by Bernard Marr
Big Data is an expression that we hear on a regular basis but not everyone knows what it is and how to use it beneficially. Bernard Marr’s book is a guide for all businesses...
Editor’s Note – April 2016
Welcome to the April 2016 issue of People & Purpose – the Positive Leadership Journal. In the Northern Hemisphere spring has now firmly sprung, the sun has come out and new shoots are appearing....
How data will transform business
In his TED Talk, Philip Evans explains why traditional business strategy no longer works in today’s modern business world. What does the future of business look like? Nowadays, technology is the driving force. Businesses...
The business starter pack
The First Mile by Scott D. Anthony Many people think about starting their own business. Lots of us started a business in childhood – do you remember the cliché of the Lemonade Stand from...
How can I be authentic in what I wear but still fit in?
Being known, liked and trusted is vital for building positive, professional relationships. Personal image is the gateway to building these three. In her talk delivered for Women in Management London, Joanna Gaudoin outlined the...
Managing Implementation Risk
When I used to work in Venture Capital we were regularly assessing strategic plans and business plans. If we liked the people, and the idea, we would move on to more detailed due diligence...
