Nick Grey is the founder and owner of Gtech, which specialises in cordless household appliances. It started out with vacuum cleaners, but has since expanded into products including hedge trimmers, ...

This is a guest post from John Stapleton, an entrepreneur, investor, advisor and founder of the New Covent Garden Soup Company. Are we expecting too much of the younger generations? In business, many ...

Neil Mullarkey with The Comedy Store Players (at the back, in the white shirt) Neil Mullarkey has been performing with The Comedy Store Players in central London every week for four decades. He ...

It was the most glamorous careers fair I’d ever been to. Not because of the jobs on offer or the salaries attached but because of the location: 10 Downing Street. I wasn't the only one to think that ...

Sir John Hegarty is a legend in the world of advertising after more than 50 years working in the industry. He co-founded the firm Bartle Bogle Hegarty in 1982, where he was responsible for some ...

I still remember the day I landed my first job. Knocked back after being told I wasn't good enough to wash hair or work at the local shoe shop, I was nervous as I waited for my turn for what I can ...

The turnaround of Sainsbury's under Justin King is one of the most famous in UK corporate history. This episode of the Business Leader Podcast is the story of how it happened. When King arrived as ...

When I wrote my book Staying the Distance: The Lessons From Sport that Business Leaders Have Been Missing, I tried to ensure the lessons I featured related to long-term and sustained performance, ...

In this instalment of our weekly video series, My Business Leader Secret, we talk to Timo Boldt, who founded Gousto in 2012 and remains its CEO. Gousto makes recipe boxes with the ingredients to make ...

“Brain rot” was the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year in 2024. It rose to prominence amid concerns over endless social media scrolling and consumption of low-value content. The rise of the ...

In this instalment of our weekly video series, My Business Leader Secret, we talk to Joanna Reynolds, who is the CEO of the London-based publisher The Folio Society. She has completely changed the way ...

Paul Graham, co-founder of the start-up accelerator Y Combinator, wrote an essay called Founder Mode that went viral earlier this year. He wrote about a talk by Brian Chesky, the co-founder of Airbnb, ...