Aunty B

Dear Aunty B, One of my directors is giving me the absolute shits. He’s recently retired after a long, long career and he’s clearly stru…

Dear Aunty B, I’ve got a major problem. I manage a relatively large team in a medium-sized business and the other day I was doing some bud…

Dear Aunty B, Thanks so much for your response to my question the other day about getting people to take me seriously as someone who works f…

Dear Aunty B, I work in a large organisation that used to be a government-owned entity. In order to make the place more entrepreneurial (or …

Dear Aunty B, We’re having a fierce debate in the office about whether we need to get Christmas presents for our clients. It’s a big t…

Dear Aunty B, I’ve been thinking about this for a while but the charity fundraiser Movember has tipped me over the edge and I just had to …

Dear Aunty B, There has been a lot of talk about working from home and the new buzzword ‘teleworking’. Being a numbers person, I can t…

Dear Aunty B, A few years ago I brought in a non-executive director to my company. He’s smart, experienced and really good on corporate go…

Dear Aunty B, I work for a small manufacturer (yes, there are some of us still around) and like most manufacturers the staff are divided be…

Dear Aunty B, You’re the only one I can talk to here. My boss is a wonderful woman who has got divorced about two years ago. We’ve bee…

Dear Aunty B, I’ve been reading your reports on confidence and the fact that very few businesses want to take on debt and thought I had to…

Dear Aunty B, We work in the tourism sector. It’s a pretty hairy industry at the moment, but I’m having a bit of an extra problem – my…