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This week in the UK, regulator the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) reported on widespread irresponsible lending in the payday loan sector. It gave the 50 main providers 12 weeks to change their practices or lose their licence. The press was all over this story. One posted a graphic of

When yesterday I blogged, touching on management guru Charles Handy, I noted his fantastic observation [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/book-review--the-dilemma-of-not-being-where-we-hoped-the-empty-raincoat--charles-handy-hutchinson-1299-1395954.html] ; > …Handy sprinkles his book [The Empty Raincoat] with examples of business people who succeed because they are passionate about their work beyond the mere profit

These past few days there’s been much water cooler chitter-chatter about whether homeworking (or at the very least, the chance to ‘work from home’ when the ‘boiler man’ or whatever, is due during office hours) is about to die out. That’s because at Yahoo [http://www.independent.co.

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/02/starlings-blackboard-promise-2399x2426.jpg] I am not exaggerating when I say that the cafe where I took this pic will always be one of my all-time favourite places on the planet. Most customers miss this blackboard. It’s kind of tucked away and easily

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/02/20130222_114126.jpg] Here’s two retail related photos I took in Cape Town during February. The one above, from inside the huge Woolworths chain clothing department, full of your daily staples. The one below, in a Jet mass market fashion chain

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif] So there I was the other day, being forced to show interest (ahem) by a girl as she flicked through a dazzlingly glossy interior design magazine. I was required to give a glimpse into my own design literacy. So I used the analogy that

When it’s not all in a word. I suffered a soul destroying series of transactions with South Africa’s Cape Town municipality recently. It’s perfectly acceptable in their world for someone to sit on something for almost a year, and then spank you with exorbitant interest on rates

The horsemeat scandal continues across Europe. Today global food colossus Nestle are the latest to fall prey. Whether you’re at the mere mislabelling end of opinion or rather feel victim to grand-scale fraud, you surely hope something will change for good. They issued anexplanation [http://www.nestle.com/media/