Yes, it is a sad truth that around 50% of businesses fail within the first four years of opening. Sometimes they fail due to intense legal battles, sometimes due to terrible management or even because the current state of technology has not yet caught up to the company vision.

Whatever the case, if you are thinking of starting up a small business and growing it into something great, then here are 5 examples to avoid at all costs:

Sometimes it can be the decisions that seem so counterproductive at the time that can end up being what sends your business into orbit. Great choices make great companies, and here we have compiled a small list of 4 of the greatest business decisions in recent memory.

Enjoy!

At the end of the day folks; it’s all about success. That is, ultimately, why we are all here and the aspiration that we all follow – to be where we want to be in this world. Success is a subjective term, of course, we’re all going to have our own definitions of it, but we all strive for it with equal  vigour. We all must experience growth in order to succeed, we must all build on our strengths and eliminate our weaknesses and motivate ourselves in ways that only we know how in order to reach the end of our chosen paths.

In light of this motivational theme, here are 10 quotes about success and inspiration to go all the way. Enjoy:

Work is a difficult enough place to be without having to put up with bad managers. It creates a tense atmosphere, creates a feeling of mistrust between employees and management and demotivates everyone. But sometimes managers are beyond bad, sometimes they are so bad that they make your working environment feel more like an episode of Tales of the Unexpected.

Here are 3 weird tales of workplaces gone wrong, that is sure to make you appreciate your current management a little more. Enjoy!

We hear it from the old timers all the time, ‘Oh, I remember the good old days when-‘and off they go on their tangent. Usually about how much nicer, faster, cleaner and more hassle-free life was back at a certain point. Well, today we thought we would test that little theory…

This one is a nostalgia piece for the older among you and a history lesson for the youngsters, so without further ado, here are 5 ways in which office-based technology has changed for us over the course of a mere 25-year period.           

We’ve all made bad decisions at work, but hopefully, not any quite as bad as these. Criticisms such as, ‘lacking foresight’ or ‘not seeing the bigger picture,’ are small fry when applied to these ones. Here are 3 of the most ludicrous choices ever made in the history business, with the benefit of hindsight.

We’ve been talking a lot about craft beer trends recently, so today, we thought we’d go the whole hog. Plenty of you who have read these blogs have been getting inspired by the young  start-up  craft breweries we’ve been describing, so we thought we would lay out some more professionally orientated marketing tips for  anyone  who is interested at giving the world of craft beer a crack!

A while ago, we were looking into trends of the food industry and found 2 companies in particular that claimed to be creating the future of food –   Impossible Foods  and  Beyond Meat, both American newly formed firms who have recently moved into the UK market.

How do you keep yourself motivated?’ is a common interview question and it’s asked to find out how you deal with the inevitable tedium of the 9-5 grind. According to a Gallup Poll of American workers, 65 percent of US workers report feeling either unengaged or are actively disengaged from work, leading to low morale, lack of productivity and just a feeling of general negativity.

Here are 3 ways to keep yourself motivated at work and ensure that you don’t succumb to negativity being your primary mindset at work:

We hear all too often from our clients when they recant times they have had to ‘let go’ a new member of their team, and all too often it’s for such reasons as, ‘they were terribly disorganised’, or ‘they didn’t appear to be motivated much/at all’, or – and most commonly – ‘their time management was atrocious’