A Christmas message: Bacon and turkey not necessarily a recipe for continuing success

We are all familiar with the terms “hiding in plain sight” and “can’t see the wood for the trees”. Depending on one’s viewpoint, it is either fitting or unfortunate that both have become such tired tropes, because they are rather useful in discussing the merits of original thought. It was Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626) …

Pension auto-enrolment for SMEs

One year after pension auto-enrolment came into effect for Britain’s largest companies, smaller businesses will soon also have to join the system, which requires employees to enrol all their staff in a company pension scheme unless people have specifically opted out. In the November 2013 Business Barometer survey, UK SMEs and business advisers were asked …