Maybe the more important question I should have asked is “if you disagree with your boss would you tell him or her?” My personal view is that whilst you’ll need to show a bit of “emotional intelligence” when it comes to disagreeing with your boss, in today’s business world there should be a certain amount [...]

The IT guys I’ve met in my career have all been very nice people. Admittedly they all seem to be slightly mad and do tend to talk in a strange language with lots of mentions of “coding this and coding that”. To be fair though they all probably think I’m slightly mad when I talk [...]

Winning the lottery is a life changing experience. The recent Euromillions lottery had a first prize of £38 million. In a lot of companies, groups of individuals get together to form a syndicate and they combine their money and enter into a lottery. The idea is that by combining your money you have more entries [...]

What price should you charge for your products? As any professional business qualification student knows, there are several different pricing strategies that can be used when setting the price for your product. You could for example base it on the internal factors of how much it costs you to produce (cost plus pricing) or you [...]

Is this you? At a young age you decided that a career in finance was what you wanted. Whilst the other kids were running around dreaming of being football players or famous actresses you were busy dreaming about spreadsheets and calculators. You then went to University and worked hard. After that you studied for a [...]

Life can be difficult if you’re a man. You fall in love and decide to get married. The challenge is that you have to ask the love of your life to get married and what happens if she says no? It’s a leap year this year and today is the 29th February. This means that [...]

Passing professional exams is a tough exercise. You’ll only pass them if you work hard and put in the hours of studying that are required. Occasionally people will no doubt try to cheat and maybe try to grab a quick glance over at the person next to them to see what they are writing. The [...]

So there I was sat down yesterday having a nice cup of coffee and reading the Sunday Times when I saw a full page advert on page 8 which was rather intriguing. It was interesting as it wasn’t clear what it was advertising. There was no reference to a product or company. It started with [...]

He’s just been appointed as the new head of Ernst & Young with ultimate responsibility for the 152,000 EY people in 144 countries but what does his mum think? It must have been a proud moment for Mr Weinberger as getting to be the head of such a prestigious organisation as EY is a pretty [...]

According to a report released yesterday by Eurostat, if you’re in the UK and you’re speaking to a woman then there is a 24% chance that she is obese (or to use less technical terminology, she is very fat). At the other end of the “fat scale” are ladies from Romania who have the privilege [...]