How to do market research well

Research should be the foundation of any growing business, but it is fraught with pitfalls that companies need to avoid

28 October, 2024

Sarah Vizard

How to use behavioural science to boost your growth

Behavioural expert Richard Shotton gives a masterclass on how to exploit the innate bias of humans and how you can benefit from The Pratfall effect

14 October, 2024

Sarah Vizard

Rethinking management: The story of Jellyfish’s non-hierarchical model

Jellyfish co-founder Rob Pierre explains how he pioneered a system that ripped up traditional ways of managing and promoting people in favour of something more equitable

30 August, 2024

Sarah Vizard

Ask Richard: The power of coaching and mentoring

Richard Harpin, the founder of HomeServe and Growth Partner and owner of Business Leader, answers your burning business questions

20 August, 2024

Sarah Vizard

Revolut banking licence: A fintech milestone

Plus, the value of M&A is up by two-thirds, why we might be able to say goodbye to the office birthday party and an Olympics preview in today's Off To Lunch

25 July, 2024

Sarah Vizard

Should tourists pay more?

Plus, use of cash hits four-year high, ice cream prices rise by 30 per cent and lessons from the global IT outage

24 July, 2024

Josh Dornbrack, Sarah Vizard

Chaos as global IT outage strikes

Plus, Pret scraps free coffee, retails sales fall and is UK inequality really getting worse, in today's Off To Lunch

19 July, 2024

Sarah Vizard

Wage growth is ‘too hot to handle’

Plus, Lloyds signs deal to finance UK buyouts, Warner Bros Discovery considers a split and why you can't cut your way to profitability in today's Off To Lunch

18 July, 2024

Sarah Vizard

High hotel prices cause inflation headache

Plus, HSBC appoints a new CEO, used electric car sales boom and why this is the summer of the quiet vacation in today's Off To Lunch

17 July, 2024

Sarah Vizard

Grocery inflation drops and the Rubik’s Cube turns 50

Plus, B&M reports strong results, how to boost UK productivity and the 'uneven' distribution of AI's environmental impacts in today's Off To Lunch newsletter

16 July, 2024

Graham Ruddick, Sarah Vizard

Burberry ousts its CEO and could you survive 378 days of team bonding?

Plus, warnings over the job market, Tesco makes a premium push and Musk officially endorses Trump in today's Off To Lunch.

15 July, 2024

Sarah Vizard

The power of delegation

Plus, the new flexible-working trial, Wetherspoons to close more pubs and why we should pay more attention to departing CEOs in today's Off To Lunch

10 July, 2024

Sarah Vizard

Business welcomes Labour government but pushes for real change

Plus, inflationary pressures ease further, UK steel warns over the high price of electricity and Amazon turns 30

5 July, 2024

Josh Dornbrack, Sarah Vizard

Why complacency is almost always a prelude to failure

Plus, steakhouse Hawksmoor is up for sale, election investment boost pending and record cash injection into equity funds

3 July, 2024

Josh Dornbrack, Sarah Vizard

The tough choices over net zero

Plus, Lufthansa adds green surcharge to flight costs, how Bernard Arnault built LVMH and why Netflix thinks you should fire some employees

26 June, 2024

Josh Dornbrack, Sarah Vizard

Retail sales and consumer confidence rebound

In today's Off to Lunch, we also cover Carlsberg's bid for Britvic, the cautionary tale of Huy Fong's hot sauce and what we can learn from the Adidas and Puma rivalry

21 June, 2024

Dougal Shaw, Sarah Vizard

Inflation falls back but the cost-of-living crisis isn’t over yet

Plus, Nvidia becomes the world's most valuable company, smaller companies are increasingly appointing all-male boards and Hargreaves Lansdown on the verge of a takeover

19 June, 2024

Sarah Vizard

Ask Richard: Advisory boards, accidental managers and being a public company

Richard Harpin, the founder of HomeServe and Growth Partner and owner of Business Leader, answers your burning business questions

14 June, 2024

Sarah Vizard