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“I didn’t want to be a weekend dad: CBI urges flexibility” So, I began my week normally, catching up on admin and checking the key business news and saw this headline and my immediate thought was here we go again, the same old business story regurgitated again. I did however, read this article as it…

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Reading the press today, it is dominated by the disagreement between Tesco and Unilever over Marmite. Now, we have long referred to Marmite as “Love it or hate it” but will this latest development have an impact on the brand or play into Unilever’s hands. In my view, Unilever are absolutely within their rights to…

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Clear Communications – Will it solve everything?  Well, it was going to happen at some point, I will enter the Brexit discussions, although not from a political perspective. My thoughts are very much from a communications point of view and the impact these have on people involved in a project. Brexit is a great example…

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Startup Funding – short term or long term? I was reading an article featuring Neil Woodford this morning on the BBC website, that talks about “how appalling” the UK is at providing start-up funding in the tech sector. Now, to most of you this won’t come as a huge surprise, although, I do think there…

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Brand Management in Charities, myth or reality? I was reading my daily marketing digest earlier and read this article on Brand Management in Charities and found myself being taken back 20 years to the commercial sector. Then, as is the case now in the third sector, companies were waking up to the fact that a brand…

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Sport means good Communications Once again the summer holidays are almost over and I have that familiar set of feelings, firstly great, I can get back to a structured day and really get going. Secondly and probably worse, is that sense that my son is going back to school and I am going to lose the…

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Planning for the rainy day! Over the past couple of months I have been speaking to a number of prospective clients, all of whom have good businesses. So why, you may think, are they talking to me, the simple answer is they, like many other businesses, want to smooth out their sales curve to ensure they…

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What can we learn from Rio Olympics? With the Olympics now over, I have to get to grips with Olympics blues, what an amazing two weeks and not just because Team GB did so well, but there were many examples of athletes pushing themselves and overcoming many different “hurdles” to achieve their goals.   One…

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I was having a conversation with one of our partners this week around Work life Balance and, knowing I was due to go on holiday soon, she asked me “do you work when you’re away or do you take a complete break?” That questions then led to a long conversation about how I work, what…

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The Olympic Effect.   As a sportsman, or should I say an ageing man who still dreams of being a sportsman, I, like many others, have been glued to the Olympics and it is great to see Team GB doing so well. However, what I find really interesting is the insight the BBC are giving…

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A rare occurrence. Driving back from a meeting this morning, I experienced something I haven’t done on the radio for as long as I can remember, presenters and guests being positive, was this really Positive Media? Normally, the rule in the media is bad news sells, and human nature being as it is, this is…

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Interestingly, Brexit has not been the only topic of conversation over the last week, thank goodness for the Euros, Wimbledon, Silverstone and the Tour de France. However, we have to acknowledge the impact it is having already, but from all my conversations with colleagues, clients and other professionals, it is clear that it is not…

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