“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses,” Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, once quipped. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, didn’t conduct focus groups ...

“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” - William Pollard It’s not easy being a business leader. No ...

AI can tell you all you need to know about it, but without Dick Fosbury, it has no story to tell [Image: Bettmann/Getty Images] Two of my favourite novels are written in verse – in fact, in sonnets.

After creating her own hair oil blends as a student, Lucie Macloud grew Hair Syrup into a multi-million pound business that she’s now expanding into Europe and the US ...

A few months ago, I gave a talk at Eton College. After pondering what I could say to these aspiring David Camerons and Boris Johnsons to get them thinking, I decided to begin the discussion with a bet ...

Whenever anyone in a business hands in their notice or is off for an extended period (for example for sickness or parental leave) there is concern about the transfer of knowledge. In almost every role ...

“If you pitched the idea of The Social Hub on Dragons’ Den, I think the Dragons would have a few questions,” says Abdul Eneser, with a wry smile. He is a final-year law student at the University of ...

99% of the UK’s on-site construction workers are male. Of the women making up just 11% of the entire construction workforce, 87% are limited to desk, design and secretarial roles. These shocking ...

Anthony Eskinazi founded the start-up JustPark in 2006, two years before Airbnb launched. Originally called ParkatmyHouse, the idea was to let people rent out their driveways or parking spaces on a ...

Established in 1998 by Richard Reed, Adam Balon and Jon Wright, Innocent Drinks started out selling smoothies at a music festival in London. From these beginnings, it has grown into a global ...

In less than 10 years, founder and CEO Greg Jackson has powered Octopus Energy from plucky green start-up into the UK’s largest domestic energy supplier. There are now almost 13 million household ...

Many people have heard of the WD-40 aerosol product and keep a can of it in a drawer at home, or perhaps their garage, but few understand what exactly it is. WD-40 stands for water displacement, 40th ...