Do Governments Give Enough Support to Entrepreneurs?

Chancellor Alistair Darling detailed the UK’s last budget before the election yesterday afternoon, and in the aftermath, while the politicians busy themselves arguing over whether the middle classes will be better or worse off as a result, I am less concerned about child tax credits stamp duty than I am about what’s in it for [...]

Some Businesses Can Afford to Ignore Ethics

If the recession hasn’t battered the optimism for the business environment out of you, consider this: while small businesses and entrepreneurs could find themselves shut down over failing to have the wrong licences or filing the wrong paperwork, some of the biggest companies in the world can make more serious problems disappear. Even better, governments [...]

Management Should Welcome Whistleblowers

I’m rather disturbed by an article in the Guardian today reporting that there has been a marked rise in the number of whistleblowers taking their (former) employers to employment tribunals over the last decade. According to the report, the number of cases has increased from 157 in 1999 to 1,791 last year. Whistleblowers report wrongdoing [...]

The Perseverance of the Principled Individual

It would be nice to think that everyone running a business behaves ethically at all times and would never dream of trying to get one over on their colleagues or competitors. Sadly, as reality has shown all too often, this is not always the case. Luckily, there are also people who are willing to stand [...]

I Love Your Blog, I Just Hate your Comments

I am trying to build up the blogroll for one of my other projects that the moment, and I’ve been going through my regular reading list to see which websites would be a good fit. What I’ve noticed is that even though I read each and every post I get via RSS feeds, there are [...]