The Boss of You

When my busi­ness part­ner Emira announced that she was expect­ing a baby, my delight at her good news was accom­pa­nied by a creep­ing feel­ing of dread about tak­ing on some of her key respon­si­bil­i­ties at work while she went on mater­nity leave. See, we’d always divided the work­load between us so that while I handled […]

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They say to write what you know, so I’ve made another con­tri­bu­tion to my “HR for the Self-Employed” series (part of the larger Biz Ladies series) over at design*sponge on the sub­ject of del­e­gat­ing.
I suck at del­e­gat­ing. But I’m try­ing hard to learn how to do it well! And I’m a firm believer that it […]

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I love menswear. I mean, I loooooove menswear. I’m not sure how my fas­ci­na­tion began, but it may just be genetic. My pater­nal grand­fa­ther owned a menswear shop in Peter­bor­ough before I was born, and my father was pre­dictably well-schooled in the fine art of wear­ing a suit and tie. My brother is as comfortable […]

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I’m very excited to announce that Emira & I are going to be guest-blogging over at one of our favourite blogs, design*sponge; as I hinted not-so-subtly a cou­ple of weeks ago, we’ll be con­tribut­ing to Grace’s new Biz Ladies sec­tion, which focuses on nur­tur­ing local com­mu­ni­ties of women run­ning their own art and design-based busi­nesses.
Those […]

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A num­ber of dif­fer­ent influ­ences have inspired me to write more here about HR for the self-employed. Partly it’s that that’s where my head is at a lot these days — we’re hir­ing & man­ag­ing more employ­ees at Raised Eye­brow than ever before, and it’s got me think­ing about what work I really, truly want […]

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