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After the success of the inaugural awards in 2012, Co-operative Development Scotland (CDS) has launched this year’s Collaboration Prize. Screen Facilities Scotland was one of the three winners from last summer and Joanna Dewar Gibb, business manager at ARTEM LTD explains how the initiative has …

Diversity is an appropriate theme to alert readers to the launch of a recent education report entitled “By Diverse Means”. A title inspired by a quote from Montaigne, suggesting that we can arrive at the same destination, but by taking different paths: http://reformscotland.com/public/publications/bydiversemeans1.pdf.
I represented the …

Why business benefits from identifying dyslexia in enterprising women
Dyslexia is a learning condition characterised by cognitive issues with short-term memory and information processing.
In 2001 research from Julie Logan at the University of Bristol reported 1 in 5 of the UK entrepreneurs they surveyed was dyslexic. …

The History Channel is currently showing a drama-documentary series called ‘The men who built America’ featuring none other than our founder, Andrew Carnegie alongside a number of well-known nineteenth and twentieth century entrepreneurs, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Ford, JP Morgan.
These men, so the strapline goes, are credited …

Vicki Wusche is a successful business owner and she recognised that by understanding the value of her time and then exploring how she spent it, she was able to increase her productivity and achieve so much more.
For example in 2012 Vicki wrote and published three …

I like to read books with which I can feel some personal connection. On a visit to Berlin last year, we took one of the tours from Berliner Unterwelten E.V. (Society for the Exploration and Documentation of Subterranean Architecture). These cover potential nuclear bunkers from …