The week according to MT
07 Dec 2007
Our 60-second guide to the best of the business news: Merv swerves as the high street creaks, Sir Keith Mills shows the value of Loyalty, and a Sunderland nightclub bans its best customer...
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JobsThe former Apax Partners boss, who now divides his time between social investment, property management and the Middle East peace process, has written a book about entrepreneurialism called 'The Second Bounce of the Ball'. MT caught up with the City grandee to find out what compelled him to put pen to...
Our 60-second guide to the best of the business news: Merv swerves as the high street creaks, Sir Keith Mills shows the value of Loyalty, and a Sunderland nightclub bans its best customer...
The 'amazingly high rate of absence' at two government departments may have provoked the wrath of the House of Commons' Public Accounts Committee. But without wishing to sound cynical, is anyone really surprised?
On Monday, Gordon Brown fired the starting gun for Enterprise Week, a five-day celebration designed to promote entrepreneurship. But amid the thousands of events taking place across the country, one company is warning that schools are not providing children with the skills they need to run their own...
MT has always championed flexible working – if done right, it can lead to a happier, better-motivated and more productive workforce. But the government’s plans to extend this right, announced yesterday in the Queen’s Speech, will have expensive implications for British businesses – so however noble...
People tend to be quite rude about accountants and lawyers, as you may have noticed. In fact, they’re the standard target of most business jokes (if that’s not a contradiction in terms). But it comes as a bit of a surprise to learn that even those plying their trade in these fine professions seem to...
The Government admitted on Tuesday that about half of the new jobs created on its watch have gone to immigrants – despite Gordon Brown’s populist tub-thumping about British jobs for British workers. But on the evidence of a new survey of potential university students, it’s no surprise that we’ve had...
If you’ve never seen a valued member of your team banging their head repeatedly on their desk, count yourself lucky. But that doesn’t mean your organisation is immune to the effects of stress in the workplace.
The North-South divide is a strange concept. Most of us are probably aware that it exists, but none of us really knows where it is.
Who’d be Chancellor of the Exchequer? Alastair Darling put in a robust showing on Tuesday in his first big outing since replacing Gordon Brown, but couldn’t escape opposition taunts that he had pinched most of his best ideas from them.
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