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Business people often struggle with the softer side of leadership yet mastering these skills can be transformational.  “Your beliefs don’t make you a better person – your behaviour does”. This[...]

With two thirds of UK businesses failing because they don’t have a succession plan in place, it’s hardly surprising that the transition of ownership and leadership weighs heavy on most business[...]

Last week the Bristol business community celebrated an exceptional home-grown success story, when Arthur David, Food with Service Ltd was named the best Family Business and crowned overall Business[...]

“Every growing business faces its own leadership challenges, but for family firms these can feel particularly acute,” observes Jo Draper, Director of QuoLux, sponsor of the Family Business of the[...]

“No leader can achieve success alone”, acknowledges Jo Draper, Director of QuoLux, sponsor of the Family Business of the Year category in the BristolLive & Bristol Post Business Awards 2019[...]

Family businesses provide some of the richest, most fertile learning grounds from which all types and sizes of organisations can draw relevant insight.  Accounting for a quarter of the UK’s[...]

Pukka, the organic, ethical herbal wellbeing company, is ensuring the firm’s outlook remains as healthy as its teas while delivering extraordinary growth worldwide. Tim Westwell, co-founder,[...]

On the 75th anniversary of D-Day let us remember all those that dedicated their lives so we could have ours. Lord 'Shimi’ Lovat led the Commandos ashore on Sword Beach on D-Day, 6th June, 1944. On[...]

How important is innovation to your business strategy?   CEOs of large firms often state that innovation is of greater importance for growth than a strategy of merger or acquisition. Many also[...]

So often, a company’s staff training and development focuses on skills and procedures not attitudes, training teams to process rather than problem-solve. Shifting our own attitudes to behavioural[...]

All this leadership learning; what’s it for?  That’s the direct and thought-provoking question that Steve Kempster, Professor of Leadership Development at Lancaster University Management School[...]

This article first appeared in the QuoLux Leading magazine – Issue 1, April 2017 By George Herbert, Sales Director, Hobbs House Bakery  I am in rather a fortunate position. Next year I will[...]