Paul Hargreaves

This week seems a good week to talk about the ego – and leadership.

I love that within a business setting the word love can be used these days.

“The people have chosen empathy” were the words on the huge stage screens at the Biden Harris victory event over the weekend.

So here we are again. Does anyone else have a strong sense of déjà vu?

It has been said that business shouldn’t get involved in politics. Leave business to business people and politics to politicians

As 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

I 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...

For 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...

It 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...

So 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...