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SMEs are facing a tough and uncertain future. To survive, they need to maximise every resource they have to hand. It's an obvious point, and we've heard it many times before, yet we still fail to grasp just how much people matter. Finding, retaining and motivating the right people can seem like an impossibly onerous task for owner-managers, who tend to lack time and resources. Yet those who get it wrong do so at their peril.
Read more here
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/sme/soapbox-people-are-the-path-to-profit-at-all-times-2122412.html
Tuesday, January 18
Dragons' Den Grow Your Business
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Dragons' Den Grow Your Business: How to expand from small to big, by Michael Heath, Peter Spalton and Stuart Warner - Collins, £12.99.
For years individual Dragons have been cashing in on their celebrity entrepreneur status by publishing a stream of business books. From autobiographies to 'how to' guides on every imaginable aspect of business life, bookshelves are full of wisdom from "the Den".
Read more here
http://www.director.co.uk/MAGAZINE/2010/8_September/books-dragons-den-grow-your-business_64_01.html
Dragons' Den Grow Your Business: How to expand from small to big, by Michael Heath, Peter Spalton and Stuart Warner - Collins, £12.99.
For years individual Dragons have been cashing in on their celebrity entrepreneur status by publishing a stream of business books. From autobiographies to 'how to' guides on every imaginable aspect of business life, bookshelves are full of wisdom from "the Den".
Read more here
http://www.director.co.uk/MAGAZINE/2010/8_September/books-dragons-den-grow-your-business_64_01.html
The best gadgets and tech at CES 2011
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Every year at CES, you’ll find a small cluster of super-gadgets that stand head and shoulders above the crowd. This is the kit that draws the biggest crowds, has the greatest potential and keeps the weary tech-heads talking long after they’ve left the convention centre and ordered their first mojito. If the exhibitors at this year’s show would let us walk off with ten products, no questions asked, we’d stuff our suitcases with the kit below and UPS the rest . . .
Read more here
http://ces2011.techradar.com/2011/01/the-best-gadgets-and-tech-at-ces-2011/
Every year at CES, you’ll find a small cluster of super-gadgets that stand head and shoulders above the crowd. This is the kit that draws the biggest crowds, has the greatest potential and keeps the weary tech-heads talking long after they’ve left the convention centre and ordered their first mojito. If the exhibitors at this year’s show would let us walk off with ten products, no questions asked, we’d stuff our suitcases with the kit below and UPS the rest . . .
Read more here
http://ces2011.techradar.com/2011/01/the-best-gadgets-and-tech-at-ces-2011/
Forex Focus: what the VAT rise could mean for the pound
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Liz Phillips takes a look at the impact last week's VAT increase could have on sterling. In normal times - remember them? - a rise in the VAT rate might be expected to send the pound in only one direction: up. Of course we all know these are far from normal times. The British economy is not yet out of the woods and inflation is already above government target levels. And we are not alone in our troubles.
Read more here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/offshorefinance/8252890/Forex-Focus-what-the-VAT-rise-could-mean-for-the-pound.html
Liz Phillips takes a look at the impact last week's VAT increase could have on sterling. In normal times - remember them? - a rise in the VAT rate might be expected to send the pound in only one direction: up. Of course we all know these are far from normal times. The British economy is not yet out of the woods and inflation is already above government target levels. And we are not alone in our troubles.
Read more here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/offshorefinance/8252890/Forex-Focus-what-the-VAT-rise-could-mean-for-the-pound.html
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