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In a world of shifting certainties, resilience and perspective remain vital tools for navigating personal and professional change.

I'll never forget that gut-punch moment. The nauseating feeling of having to tell my wife we needed to sell our family home to save the business.

Why understanding the brain is your next competitive advantage

How Metro Bank Is redrawing the SME playbook

How Authologic is rewiring digital identity from the ground up

From a Welsh football club to an American wrestling powerhouse, Rob Edwards is reshaping sports ownership with a disruptive, people-first strategy.

Old-school knit, new-school attitude — clothes that mean something.

The smart business response to global disruption

In a media landscape that often overlooks diversity, Kunda Kids is redefining children's stories by centering African heritage and creating a new model for representation and entrepreneurship.

In the fiercely competitive world of start ups, identifying the right problem to solve can be as challenging as building the solution itself.

Many view disability as a limitation. However, for others, it's a compass that points them to not what they can't do but to everything they must try.

If, like me, you've been watching the neo-Western drama Yellowstone on Netflix, you'll know the real drama isn't in the battle for cattle or land, but in who takes over the family ranch that Kevin Costner's John Dutton and his ancestors have spent nearly 150 years protecting.

At the edge of spring and the start of something else, May is more than a marker on the business calendar for Oliver Chapman. It's a moment of clarity—a quiet pivot point when introspection gives way to strategy.

The current tariff-driven economic disruption is undoubtedly severe. Policies telegraphed prior to the election were not taken seriously, forcing many businesses on the back foot.

In the UK capital, somewhere off the corridors of power, Karim Fatehi OBE, CEO of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is doing what he does best: advocating for business while carefully navigating the crosswinds of policy, politics and persistent economic unease.

Let's face it- running a business is basically professional fire-walking. If you've built something worth scaling, you're constantly balancing momentum with fragility.

The 24-year-old reinventing your tap water

Why David Milner only bets on brands built to shake up the system

As tech start-ups race to capture users and scale fast, Tribela is taking a different path — one grounded not in disruption, but in responsibility.

As we watch with awe, trepidation, or (for some) excitement and hope, the roll out of rapid changes happening across the globe in 2025, I wanted to stand still by something which I am really finding hard to understand.

Battling imposter syndrome and startup uncertainty, one founder built a pathway back to work for skilled professionals sidelined by bias—proving that a career break should never mean a broken career.

For two CEOs at the helm of very different high-growth UK start-ups — one in AI and sustainability, the other in financial education — the lessons of rapid scaling come down to a few deceptively simple rules: hire wisely, embed values deeply, and whatever you do — don't be the bottleneck.

Making good decisions and getting things done are vital skills for any entrepreneur or businessprofessional.

From a quiet breakthrough in a home office to a platform powering businesses in 219 countries, this is how one start-up reimagined enterprise software - and why its next act, fuelled by AI, might be even bigger.

Despite the progress we've made, the road to business success for women is still full of hurdles.

From a garage startup to a game-changing force in sustainable construction, Material Evolution is rewriting the rules of cement production — and calling for smarter government support to help innovators scale faster.