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The3rdimagazine is a magazine that, historically, has  looked at business issues from a woman’s perspective. While the focus has widened to include co-operative, social and collaborative enterprises and to examine alternative business and economic models it is entirely appropriate that the main issue when we …

Girls wear pink, Boys wear blue.
Girls play with dolls, Boys play with toy trucks.
Women are hairdressers, Men are plumbers.
Women are nurses, Men are doctors.
These are just a few of the gender stereotypes which we’ve all heard, and maybe even reinforced, with our own life choices.
When …

Earlier this year I was asked to give the Common Business School lecture at Liverpool Hope University on the subject of Women Entrepreneurs. Since I have been running entrepreneurial businesses since 1990, this seemed like a reasonable request.
I decided that the title of the lecture …

The idea of community has changed a lot over the past two generations.
My paternal grandparents lived in a terraced, back-to-back in Liverpool. My mothers parents in a terraced, back-to-back in Widnes. Their parents lived in the same street, as did an assortment of aunts, uncles, …

I want to write in praise of making stuff.
When we were children we understood the simple joy of making things; houses, even whole towns made of lego, fuzzy felt pictures, plasticine figures and stickle brick towers, but as we got older we grew up and …

I saw only today on facebook this comment, “If the growing number of people that are openly calling  for the PM and his government to be lynched is telling us anything, it is that revolution is imminent.”
I don’t agree with this conclusion but the growing …