“Success leaves clues”: How one founder rebuilt her company's culture
How admitting an uncomfortable truth about her own business helped Kate Lester build a more diverse, resilient company
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
29 July 2026
Talent & Culture
Dame Irene Hays on grief, rescuing Thomas Cook and growing Hays Travel
The company's owner on leading Hays Travel through Thomas Cook, Covid and personal tragedy, without ever borrowing a penny
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
29 July 2026
Values on the wall mean nothing. Here's what actually makes them real
The boss of Explore Learning, the UK's largest independent tuition provider, on living values rather than laminating them and why she treats culture like teaching a six-year-old
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
27 July 2026
Most founders say people come first. Here's how to tell who means it
This founder reckons you can spot a real culture by what a company refuses to cut in a bad month, not what it boasts about in a good one
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
22 July 2026
“Cultural add”, not “cultural fit”: How Medialab protects its values
The agency’s chief people and culture officer explains how three simple values shape everything from recruitment to parental leave
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
20 July 2026
How Loveholidays tripled revenue without owning a single plane
Loveholidays' CEO Donat Rétif on why the toughest market comes first and the crisis rule that paid off
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
14 July 2026
The Brexit warning hiding in a Mayfair housekeeper's pay packet
When the wealthy decide a country has lost its pull, the people who staff their homes know first
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
10 July 2026
Brexit didn't cause Britain's skills shortage. It exposed it
The shortage was years in the making. This recruiter explains what it exposed and where the talent is hiding now
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
30 June 2026
How one CEO turned meeting waffle into a competitive advantage
The co-founder of Otter.ai thinks information silos are quietly costing you a fortune. His solution is to capture everything
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Dougal Shaw
Date
15 June 2026
Turning Sephora into a €16bn giant: The risks, mistakes and breakthroughs
Former Sephora CEO Chris de Lapuente on why businesses should only scale when the core is ready
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Dougal Shaw
Date
19 May 2026
BT: The strategy to revive a 180-year-old giant
AI tech titans clash, UK drug investment boost and more in our weekly newsletter
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Dougal Shaw and Josh Dornbrack
Date
30 April 2026
The attention crisis costing your business more than you think
Constant connectivity is eroding focus, productivity and creativity across the modern workplace
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Ed Smith
Date
29 April 2026