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Benefits cap – rejected, no game changing ambition and poor ROI

Everyday we work on game changing ideas for big business. They are always for commercial gain and there to prove we are stretching beyond what exists today, taking on impossible thinking, innovating and being future facing. I'm happy to say that there has been recent energy surge for this, as if business has finally acknowledged that there is no point in waiting, being risk adverse isn't going to cut it, bring out the ballsy thinking!

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Dani Maxton

January 17, 2012 in Economy, Innovation, Leadership, Motivation

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Are you a budding Entrepreneur? Make tomorrows headlines about you!

Wouldn't it be great if negative headlines changed to Britain shows the highest increase in new start-up businesses during 2012 or economy strengthened by fearless British entrepreneurs - Don't fear what is happening to other Companies see it as an opportunity to create your own niche.

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Was the Iron Lady so unique no-one will follow?

Margaret Thatcher is still a polarising figure, worshipped and reviled, sometimes by the same people. People who emerge from the masses and become figures that make such a difference to the world because of their actions (good and bad) fascinate me. Why them? What did they do to get such attention and influence? Of course in reflection, was that a good thing or bad?

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Home sweet home…not for everyone this Christmas

The headline this week that 70,000 children in the UK would wake up on Christmas day homeless made me stop in my tracks and listen. The headline was Shelter drawing attention to the fact that to be homeless you don't have to be sat in a shop doorway, you could be out of sight in a B&B, Refuge or Shelter - temporary accommodation - and these figures are on the up in a scary way.

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Michael Ryan

December 21, 2011 in Economy, Innovation

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Has the High Street stopped thinking locally?

Last night, I witnessed the two extremes of the run up the Christmas.

After a hectic visit to the Trafford Centre, I was relieved to get to a Christmas concert organised by a local business owner. I know which experience I preferred.

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Dani Maxton

December 13, 2011 in Change Management, Communication, Economy, Leadership

Show Me The Money

Show me the money!

Work Foundation think thank released a report on Wednesday which stated that cities outside of London and the South East risk being "left behind" by the government's pre-existing growth strategy, while enterprise development zones are "outdated". The feeling was that the previous government acted as parents deciding what local agendas should be without really understanding the impact of their decisions.

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Nina Dar

December 12, 2011 in Communication, Economy, Leadership, Motivation

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Europe we are a chicken not a pyg(my) – right?

The role we play in Europe is critical to us all, we need to understand the decisions that are being made and the consequences of those actions and we need to make those decisions openly, while exercising leadership in this international forum.

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Nina Dar

December 5, 2011 in Change Management, Economy, NPD, PLM, Transformational Change

One Dollar Bill

Sustainable PLM & the $1 project?

How are you looking forward to see who your future customers are and how you are going to reach them no matter how unrealistic that may sound? May be everyone should start a $1 project...

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