Technologgie

Are You Okay with AI Ripping You Off?

By Jamie Dobson, author of The Cloud Native Attitude

Imagine writing a book and putting it out into the world for people to enjoy. But then someone takes the book, blends it with another similar story, and then sells it, makes a movie of it, and starts selling merchandise, all without payment or even mentioning your name. You would be rightfully miffed.

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Feedback Should Be Empowering, Not Daunting

By Becky Westwood, author of Can I Offer You Something?

Feedback can be a powerful tool for individual growth and development. But for many people, receiving feedback can be a daunting experience inspiring anxiety, dread and even fear in people.

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Essential Connections for Business Success

By Paul Hargreaves, author, speaker and CEO of Cotswold Fayre and Flourish

Whether it is with potential clients or existing customers, with investors and financial partners or suppliers and vendors, with colleagues and peers or industry leaders and mentors, connections are crucial for every business. Growth and revenue generation depend on connections.

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Embracing Cloud Native

By Jamie Dobson, founder of Container Solutions and author of The Cloud Native Attitude

At software conferences or tech meetups, the term ‘Cloud Native’ is thrown around like confetti. Along with it comes an avalanche of buzzwords: containers, orchestration, microservices. But what does it all really mean for your business? Let’s cut through the jargon and explore why Cloud Native has become such a hot topic – and more importantly, whether it’s right for you.

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Good Leadership and Workplace Friendships

By Paul Hargreaves, author, speaker and CEO of Cotswold Fayre and Flourish

It seems to me that friendship is becoming a lost art. Even the word ‘friend’ has been downgraded by social media. But friendship is essential if we are to thrive and flourish as human beings – and as leaders.

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Why You’re Searching for More (And What to Do About It)

By Stephen Bruyant-Langer, author of The Existential Playbook – How to Survive, Live and Thrive

Happiness as an emotion is inherently transient. It is a fleeting feeling rather than a sustainable state. Having spent decades working with high-achieving individuals, I’ve observed that dissatisfaction often stems not from a lack of success, but from an imbalance in how we engage with life that in turn leads to a lack of meaning.

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Why Paralegals are essential to the Legal Sector and beyond

By Amanda Hamilton, Patron of NALP (National Association of Licensed Paralegals)

Paralegals are an essential part of the legal sector. Being a paralegal is a career path in its own right, and embracing and welcoming paralegals within the profession is a win-win for all. People currently entering the sector, whether they are graduates or career changers, are choosing to become professional paralegal practitioners, meaning that their ambition is not to qualify as a solicitor, but instead, to specialize in one or two areas of law and offer their specialist services to solicitors, in-house legal departments, or to the public. This can add value to a law firm, make it financially viable for an in-house department and, indeed, offer access to justice at a reasonable cost to consumers.

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Look at Your Finance Department if You Want to Scale Your Business

By Ian Miell, Container Solutions

It is folly for a company to attempt to scale without addressing their financial structures. To understand why finance is so crucial, let’s look at the typical evolution of a tech company.

Most start in what we might call the ‘Hero Hacking’ phase. A few talented programmers—the kinds of people who will accept lower pay and work late nights to perfect a product—build solutions for one or two key clients who bring in most of the money. The financial model is simple: keep the customers happy, and the money keeps flowing.

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Working on our Prison Crisis

By Sid Madge, founder of Meee, and author of the Meee in a Minute books

The issues of rehabilitation, retribution, and incarceration have never been more critical to the public discourse than they are today. With the UK prison system facing mounting challenges, from overcrowding to underfunding, it is clear that something has to change. The question is not just what the government can do, but what role we can all play in this process. The rehabilitation of prisoners is not merely an institutional issue, it’s a societal one, and the future of our prison system is indeed down to all of us.

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Think About Your People Before Embracing the Cloud

By Jamie Dobson, Container Solutions

Over the past decade, Cloud computing has emerged as a transformative force, promising unprecedented efficiency and scalability. However, despite the rush for businesses to adopt this technology, a huge number of Cloud projects fail to meet their stated objectives.

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