Margaret Heffernan

Margaret is a true all-rounder: an entrepreneur, CEO, writer and public speaker. She has run software and media firms in the UK and the US and currently sits on the boards of several small companies.

She blogs for The Huffington Post . Her two books, How She Does It and The Naked Truth, make for fabulous, challenging reading.

She has been a contributor to Real Business magazine for several years and is also co-chair of our very own First Women Awards. You can learn more about Margaret at her website.

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You don't have to be a bully to succeed in business
By Margaret Heffernan
When I worked in television, standard procedure required that all films be seen in an early rough cut by the programme editor. These viewings filled me with dread. Not only was I revealing my work to the outside world for the first time but I also happened to work for a screamer.

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Do you have the courage to hire staff completely different to yourself?
By Margaret Heffernan
I spent last summer working in a laundry. No, I hadn’t lost my mind; I was filming an episode for Channel 4’s Secret Millionaire series.

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Focus on staff, not price cuts
By Margaret Heffernan
Quality staff trump cheap labour.

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The way forward: peer-to-peer lending sites
By Margaret Heffernan
One of Yvonne Thoroughgood’s earliest memories is of a Christmas Day when she sat by a river bank in Jamaica, making a present for herself out of grass and an old glass bottle.

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Jaw jaw is better than war war
By Margaret Heffernan
I hate law suits. Not because I’m a wimp but because I’ve seen what they do to people.

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The high price of acquisition
By Margaret Heffernan
For years, John had been told his company was valuable.

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Looking beyond stereotypes
By Margaret Heffernan
Corporate executives are routinely portrayed as the opposite of entrepreneurs.

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Is your niche facing oblivion?
By Margaret Heffernan
Stuff happens. You can run your business as smoothly as you like, hire great people, manage them flawlessly, have a market, have a product – and still fail.

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What's so great about America?
By Margaret Heffernan
What can we learn from the States? At this particular moment in history, it doesn’t look like much.

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More ways to end office politics
By Margaret Heffernan
Quiz your friends and family on what makes a great leader, and many of them will say “energy”.