Speciality Bites with
Paul Hargreaves
Chief executive of Cotswold Fayre
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Egotistical Leadership
23 November 2020 Speciality BitesThis week seems a good week to talk about the ego – and leadership. -
Is love in the air?
16 November 2020 Speciality BitesI love that within a business setting the word love can be used these days. -
Empathy
09 November 2020 Speciality Bites“The people have chosen empathy” were the words on the huge stage screens at the Biden Harris victory event over the weekend. -
Lockdown 2.0
02 November 2020 Speciality BitesSo here we are again. Does anyone else have a strong sense of déjà vu? -
Business and Politics
26 October 2020 Speciality BitesIt has been said that business shouldn’t get involved in politics. Leave business to business people and politics to politicians -
A Positive and Negative Trend
19 October 2020 Speciality BitesAs the pandemic rolls on, certainly until next Spring if not beyond, I see one very positive trend for speciality food retailers and one not so positive -
Time Out
28 September 2020 Speciality BitesI well remember at a trade show a prospective new supplier telling me that he hadn’t had a proper holiday for ten years. I think this was aimed at impressing me somehow. It didn’t. I just thought how incredibly foolish and... -
A Measure of Success?
21 September 2020 Speciality BitesFor many decades countries have measured their status in the world by something called, Gross Domestic Product (GDP). These numbers are put into a league table with the most powerful nations at the top, and the poorest nations at the... -
Focus on Independents
14 September 2020 Speciality BitesIt is a well-reported phenomenon how well local independent food retailers have done during the pandemic. Both their embeddedness in the local community and their commitment and delivery of better and more compassionate service have contributed to these independent retailers... -
Business Governance post Covid?
07 September 2020 Speciality BitesSo will there be lasting change in business culture for 2021, or will the questions that have been asked of business leaders during Covid be pushed back down again? Potentially, things could go back to how they were at...