So you've got a brilliant idea for a business. Now what?
Getting a business off the ground isn't just about finding start-up money. Behind the scenes you've got to be able to live and ensure your personal finances don't go backwards.
Today is equal pay day – the day that shows how much longer a woman has to work from the end of the financial year to earn the same as an average man. At Imalia, we believe that society needs to change, at every layer, to redress the imbalance that has been allowed to develop between men and women.
There’s a new force emerging in the business world that not many people are talking about yet, but I think will be on the radar pretty soon: women who have paid their dues in the corporate world and at the age of about 35 decide to strike out on their own and start a business.
Middle-aged women are often successful due to having worked so long to get where they are. They’ve been in the trenches, they’ve made all the mistakes, and now they’re reaping the benefits of their struggles.
While more than 75 percent of CEOs say gender equality is part of their top 10 business priorities, women remain underrepresented across every level of the corporate pipeline—comprising just 37 percent of management positions and 19 percent of C-Suite positions, according to a recent study from McKinsey and LeanIn.org.
While the highly effective habits of good managers tend be overlooked, the traits of bad managers are engraved in our memories. Here are seven habits of the highly effective you can incorporate into your workplace.
Many entrepreneurs wouldn’t even blink at the idea of an 80-hour work week, but when it comes to making time for the most essential of tasks like sleep, the stats don’t weigh in the business community’s favour.
From understanding how long to spend on a company blueprint to dealing with the troubles caused by micromanaging, mastering time is something all business operators and entrepreneurs have to grapple with.
Here are six ways to think about juggling time and maximising your company’s impact.
According to the 2016 Taking on Inequality Report by the World Bank Group, the most recent estimates indicate that 10.7 percent of the world’s population lived on less than US$1.90 a day, compared to 12.4 percent in 2012. Whilst that number is thankfully trending downwards, (down from 35 percent in 1990), 10 percent of 7 billion is still an enormous number of people living from hand to mouth. Many of those individuals are women and children. Thankfully, there are organisations like Kiva, that have built businesses with a mission to connect people through alternative lending models as a means to alleviate poverty.
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