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How flexible working, and flexibility can boost your business

With LinkedIn currently running its #ParentsAtWork campaign to highlight the challenges many parents at work, I thought this the perfect opportunity to share why I think providing flexible working, and being flexible, are a huge benefit to both…

Why you are losing great employees

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Those who take their business or leadership role seriously know that life is much easier and business is much more successful with real talent in your team. The CEO’s of two of the most successful businesses in corporate history, Steve Jobs…

How to avoid scaling up killing your company culture

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The moment your very success is the very thing that threatens to kill your business comes as quite a surprise. For me the moment, in my last business, hit me like a slap in the face with a wet fish. Not something you forget! I co-founded…

Never mind the Lithium, what about the talent?!

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As the clean energy transition grows, there is increasingly a skills and talent gap. This is an article I had published in Smart Cities World (link to the original below). Throughout my time in the clean energy sector there has always been…

Me, Bear Grylls and a toilet

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As part of my selection for #LinkedInTopVoices 2018, I was asked to write something about me that isn't on my LinkedIn profile. This came to mind. At the end of 2007, after 17 years in executive search, I co-founded, along with Mike Clarke,…

How to deal with over inflated salaries in ‘hot’ markets

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It's an unavoidable fact that when you want to scale your business, you need to recruit your team, and you want to recruit the best you can afford. At least I hope you do, otherwise I'd question your recruitment strategy. But what about when…

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