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Work-Life-Balance featured articles:
- The work-from-home cafe owner
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- Working from home for part of the week is one of many benefits having a business partner gives mum-to-be Jill Willis, who has cleverly negated any potential hazards of working with her husband.
- Supermum: the work-life balance challenge
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- Chrissie Rolls, a Musical Minis franchisee based in Swindon, talks about the challenges of juggling motherhood and business ownership.
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Psychology of Success
- (12 articles)
- Recipe for success: baby food business
- Most people would have given up. Not Sally Preston, who overcame a succession of problems and the constraints of motherhood to succeed in the world of baby food.
- Mumpreneurs starting a business
- Why do women choose to go it alone in business? BusinessWings talked to three mothers who own successful businesses to find out.
- The mumpreneur: online coaching business
- Female entrepreneurs are very different from their male counterparts. Mel McGee explains why...
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Staying In
- (3 articles)
- Classic books: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- A sanatorium has the potential for both tragedy and comedy – potential exploited to the full by Ken Kesey in his most famous offering.
- A book to read when... you need a laugh
- Although it's not to everyone's tastes Joseph Heller's anti-war classic Catch-22 made it into the dictionary. Not many books can claim that.
- Chasing the iPod: MP3 players compared
- Just as the Hoover brand became a generic word for a vacuum cleaner, iPod now defines its category. But is the competition worthy of more attention?
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Work Life Philosophy
- (10 articles)
- The seven happiness secrets
- How to stay sanguine no matter how bad things get - very apt in these tough times.
- The history of business
- Where did the expression 'a nation of shopkeepers' come from and are we really still?
- The changing face of work
- A guide to economic and workplace developments from 1700 to the present day, with one eye on the future, by Workology.
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Going Out
- (5 articles)
- 10 tips on how to social network
- Many books have been written about how to social network, but verbal communication expert Phillip Khan-Panni has distilled the best advice into the 10 top tips.
- Squash: the social sport for business people
- Why do business people like to socialise with their peers on the squash court? From where did Squash originate? How effective is it as a form of exercise compared to other sports? These and other questions answered…
- The team-building trip: five company social events
- If you’re struggling for business social ideas then you’ll find nothing that you haven’t already thought of here. A breakdown of five typical company social events, from paintballing to pubs.
All Work-Life-Balance Articles
- Dragon's Den & The Apprentice: a public service?
- Do Dragon’s Den and The Apprentice truly recognise, encourage and reward entrepreneurial talent, or do they achieve nothing more than to entertain the viewer?
- See more in: Alan Sugar, Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, James Caan, Duncan Bannatyne, Theo Paphitis, Rachel Elnaugh, Dragon's Den, The Apprentice, TV entrepreneurs, feature
- The work-from-home cafe owner
- Working from home for part of the week is one of many benefits having a business partner gives mum-to-be Jill Willis, who has cleverly negated any potential hazards of working with her husband.
- See more in: work-life balance, cafe, food, business partners, work from home, interview
- Malcolm Gladwell
- The author of Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers is one of the world's most influential thinkers, according to Time magazine, and an inspiration to people in business.
- See more in: Malcolm Gladwell, profile, author, socioeconomics, sociology
- Beat the recession
- Jo Haigh of MGR corporate accountants believes the power of positive thought will help small business owners beat the recession.
- See more in: recession, interview, accountant, buy a business
- Supermum: the work-life balance challenge
- Chrissie Rolls, a Musical Minis franchisee based in Swindon, talks about the challenges of juggling motherhood and business ownership.
- See more in: women in business, childcare, music, buy a franchise, franchisee, interview
- Robert Peston: soaring from the slump
- One of the few success stories to emerge from the recession is the ascent of BBC News 24 mainstay Robert Peston.
- See more in: Robert Peston, Northern Rock, Gordon Brown, credit crunch, profile, politics, recession
- Recipe for success: baby food business
- Most people would have given up. Not Sally Preston, who overcame a succession of problems and the constraints of motherhood to succeed in the world of baby food.
- See more in: working mums, women in business, start a business, interview, food, baby food, children
- Mumpreneurs starting a business
- Why do women choose to go it alone in business? BusinessWings talked to three mothers who own successful businesses to find out.
- See more in: work, home, motherhood, mother, children, maternity leave, mumpreneur, women in business, interview, work from home, start a business
- The mumpreneur: online coaching business
- Female entrepreneurs are very different from their male counterparts. Mel McGee explains why...
- See more in: mothers, work-life balance, coaching, training, motivation, women in business, interview, working mums, mumpreneur, start a business
- 10 tips on how to social network
- Many books have been written about how to social network, but verbal communication expert Phillip Khan-Panni has distilled the best advice into the 10 top tips.
- See more in: communication, speaking, networking, social networking, business cards, contacts, guide
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