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Why I’m learning from Stephen Kelly
Business mentors are important. For some years I’ve looked at Martin Lewis as an example. I have exploited a gap in conviction based thought leadership in pensions to build this blog and help develop Pension PlayPen as a brand that … Continue reading
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Tagged accountants, autoenrolment, Brexit, mentor, Payroll, payroll software, pensions, Retirement, Sage, Stephen Kelly
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BREXIT – big business hysteria has to stop – Stephen Kelly – Sage.
The tale of Chicken Little was a Kelly bedtime story favourite – and in recent days in post-referendum Britain, some of our leaders seem to have taken a lead from the famous farmyard fable. In the story, Chicken Little … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, chicken Little, Economy, EU, June 23rd, Sage, SME, Stephen Kelly
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Entrepreneurs need leadership, not political personality contests- guest blog from Stephen Kelly
In recent days, it has felt alarmingly like our political leaders have left the pitch. With the Government and the Opposition both agonising over leadership contests and underground coups, a worrying narrative has started to creep in. Scaremongering, talking down the economy, … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, corporation tax, entrepreneurs, Sage, SMEs, Stephen Kelly
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Make yourself your business leader
This morning I published a post by Stephen Kelly, CEO of Sage – you can read it here. Kelly published on a terrible day for the Sage share price Leaders lead, when they are up against the ropes they take … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, courage, Leader, Poland, polish, Sage, Stephen Kelly
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A rallying cry for Britain from Sage’s Stephen Kelly
Carpe Diem The impact of Thursday’s vote moved on swiftly from shock and surprise to confusion this weekend, as it became clear that there are no certainties about what happens next. But whilst the politicians obsess over inter-party vendettas and … Continue reading
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Tagged corporation tax, pension playpen, pensions, Sage, Stephen Kelly
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If your boss doesn’t care about your pension , he doesn’t care about you.
Popcorn pensions We’re used to bosses telling us that we’re the company’s greatest resource.Britain is a service led economy and even in an increasingly digital market, the human resource is expensive to acquire and to replace. If you have a … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, educate, Empower, Engage, pension playpen, popcorn, Popcorn Pensions, Sage, trust, workplace pension
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Is automatic-enrolment about to become a pension issue?!
Business software is not glamorous; writing about the goings on of the annual BASDA conference was going to be a challenge, especially with a sexy pension dashboard conference happening concurrently. So I’m pleased to bring a good news story to your … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, BASDA, Bond, DWP, Government, Inuity, pensions, Qtac, Retirement, Sage, software, Xero
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AE – State of the Nation – thoughts from Accountex
Two days conducting over 300 conversations with accountants , payroll experts and a pension providers has put me in reflexive (and recumbent!) mood!. I may only have spoken to 1 in 10 of the people who passed the Pension … Continue reading
NEST takes the strain.
NEST have something to shout about and it’s not news. Like good background music, they’ve succeeded in being there but not getting noticed. They’ve gone about their business over the last three months increasing their participating employers from 40 to … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, Financial services, Helen Dean, IRIS, Moneysoft, NEST, pension, pension playpen, pensions, Qtac, Retirement, Sage
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One small step for payroll, one giant leap for auto-enrolment.
There have been two events over the past couple of weeks that I think we’ll look back to as tipping points in the auto-enrolment staging timeline. Till now, employers have had no choice but to send and collect data to … Continue reading
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Tagged Legal and General, NEST, pensionsync, Sage
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