No matter how modern and sophisticated we think we are – and let’s face it, even the new coffee machine has the power to make us feel like we’ve walked into a George Clooney advert – we can always learn and take inspiration from those who have walked the line before us. Some of our […]
High-flying legal eagles we can all look up to Read More »
Google is a 21st Century cyber beast of huge and terrifying proportions. It is a data diplodocus, a search engine stegosaurus and a technological tyrannosaurus rolled into one. It seems unstoppable. It is certainly one of the world’s biggest and most successful companies. And as the firm has grown, so has the number of its
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How good are your juggling skills? Can you keep lots of balls in the air at the one time and still keep a cool head and a smile on your face? Before you run away and join a circus, why not put your abilities to good use as front-of-house customer services for a business that
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IT wouldn’t be summer without a visit to a grand stately home or majestic castle and in Scotland you can hardly drive five miles without tripping over another beautiful site of historic interest. Some of the best are in the hands of the National Trust for Scotland which, every year, welcomes around 2.56 million visitors
Customer Services…your knights in shining armour Read More »
When the great Bill Withers sang about having somebody to lean on in times of trouble, he wasn’t singing about carers . . . but he might as well have been. There when we’re not strong or need a hand to carry on, carers are at the heart of our hospital wards, care homes and
You can’t put a price tag on caring Read More »
A recent report published by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Scotland study says advanced nurse practitioners (ANPs) are crucial to the future sustainability of the country’s health service. It says action is needed at all levels if ANPs are to drive the changes needed to transform the way health services are delivered in Scotland
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Britain’s financial services sector is booming louder than King Kong’s chest in mating season. But don’t take our word for it: the UK has been revealed as the world’s biggest net exporter of financial services for the tenth year in a row. The announcement by financial services lobby group TheCityUK claims financial services –
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There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know. This was Donald Rumsfeld famously describing how the war in Iraq
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There can be few people who cannot take inspiration from the business acumen of the late, great Steve Jobs, the man who made Apple into a global phenomenon. But did you know the business principles of the innovative organisation were actually written by a chap called Mike Markkula? According to biographer Walter Isaacson, Jobs asked
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While it may be true that the team is the most important thing, we all know that every winning team must have a good leader. Leaders inspire, motivate, involve, teach . . . and generally act as the driving force behind a company’s short and long-term ambitions. As an inspirational leader you should be able
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