From sexist dress codes to discrimination in tech, modern slavery to an innovative “pay as you feel” social enterprise food business, and the three “secrets of newbie success in tech” – it’s all in this week’s radio show podcast. Jo Hercberg, Elizabeth Shassere and Jay Bhayani joined me in the radio studio on Friday for […]
Archives for January 2017
Will Ebenezer’s new gardens be good in name or reality?
January 30, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Garden Villages, land value capture and sustainability: purity of principle or a fake pill? ‘Eezer Goode, Eezer Goode / He’s Ebeneezer Goode.’ So went the chorus of The Shaman’s 1992 hit, Ebeneezer Goode. Drop an e and you get a different Ebeneezer, from a century earlier. Ebenezer Howard remains famous for his good idea: championing […]
From resolutions to revolutions
January 26, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Achieving your business and personal goals; overcoming procrastination; the value of coaching; addressing automation; fairness in the workplace; neighbourliness; making Sheffield fairer and the cumulative power of small actions; and the Japanese word for “chit chat.” It’s all in my latest Business Live radio show, broadcast on Sheffield Live on Friday 20 January. Listen to […]
Interview: My Sheffield Pound’s Kurtis Wright
January 6, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Digital technology and smartphone applications are disrupting traditional finance and business; local currencies have been launched in many UK and worldwide locations. Kurtis Wright is an entrepreneur combining local with digital, who talked with me about a new payment platform he plans to launch for local independent businesses.
