TV Presenter Laura Whitmore is the latest celebrity to be announced as a contestant in the next series of Strictly Come Dancing. She will be thrown together with an unknown professional and take on tangoing and waltzing to the delight …
Welcome the first One Minute Monday of 2016! This week we examine UK productivity in just one very productive minute. Improving the UK’s productivity is something that the Chancellor prioritised in his ‘Fixing the Foundations’ plan for the economy. Productivity …
The sharp slowdown we’ve seen in productivity since 2008 has been a puzzle for some time now. As part of the UK Commission’s work on improving our understanding of the puzzle, we have – together with our partners LLAKES – …
...lacking the management and leadership skills needed to work across organisational boundaries. Neglecting management and leadership skills, say the Captains interviewed, affects the company’s ability to attract and retain the...
...100 ‘Captains of Industry’, followed up by 20 additional in-depth interviews. Captains are executive board-level directors and chairs from the top 500 industrial companies by turnover and top 100 financial...
...into better products and services. This brings competitive advantage and allows businesses to grow and move up the value chain, creating more and better jobs and progression opportunities. Globalisation, technology...
Retail and hospitality represent two of the largest sectors in the UK economy, employing 5.7 million people across the UK. That’s one in five of all jobs. Yet low pay and high staff turnover continue to be the hall marks …
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