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Steve Purdham
Debbie Pierce
Richard O'Sullivan
Brian Hay
Gary Jacobson
Jeremy Roberts
Tony Caldeira
David Pollock
Ian Morris

Entrepreneurs Panel

David Pollock

We had a team of contract cleaners in last month during office hours following a case of swine flu. The next week one of my competitors started approaching our clients, using information that I think can only have come from our sales database. my suspicions are obvious. Is there anything I can do?

David Pollock

My company has quite a laid-back and sociable culture. We have recently begun integrating a smaller acquired business into our offices and the staff that have joined us are used to a much more formal working environment, to which they seem wedded. What should I do to maintain harmonious relations?

David Pollock

My workplace requires a degree of concentration but has in recent months become so chatty as, I fear, to impact upon productivity. I don’t want to impose a Trappist regime, and indeed my staff need to discuss their work regularly, but I think things have gone too far. I don’t want my staff to think I’m an ogre, and I have no problem with the occasional water cooler chat, but how can I make them realise that sometimes silence is golden?

David Pollock

I am 45 years old and have been my own boss since leaving school, building up a £5 million-turnover logistics business that rents its premises. So far I've done very little about my pension – just putting away five or six per cent of the (relatively modest) salary I pay myself into the staff money purchase scheme. What do you think I should do?

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