Category: Business
Kathleen’s blogs on current business topics
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X Shaped Skills Are Key To Board Success In 2024 Board Challenges For 2024 Non-executive directors (NEDs) provide a vital role in ensuring businesses deploy rigorous, strategic planning and implementation, fuelled by exceptional talent, against a backdrop of well understood market challenges. Board Chairs face the challenge of ensuring their NEDs have “the X Factor” for…
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Sabbaticals and Fractional Experts Can Offer a Solution The Problem Businesses are losing key senior staff due to the unprecedented challenges from the impacts of the pandemic, combined with challenging economic pressures and geopolitical instability. Executive’s mental health and work-life balance are at risk as they plough on with trying to do more with less, resulting in…
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Hailed as a significant part of the UK’s Industrial Strategy, High Speed 2 rail’s (HS2) goals were to boost the UK economy by upgrading and interconnecting 21 routes in the northern rail infrastructure, whilst radically reducing travel time to the Capital. Phase 1 (London/Birmingham) was planned to launch 2028. The original HS2 business case, developed in 2015…
