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Prospering in the New Business Landscape. At Vistage, our role is to make our members better leaders. Below you will find a white paper that we’ve produced that suggest what business leaders should be focused on to succeed in The New Economy. I hope that you will find it valuable in planning the future for your business. I welcome your thoughts, comments and suggestions.
One of Vistage's top speakers is Roger Martin Fagg who also provides our members with economic updates throughout the year to help our members get an understanding of the economic outlook and the impact on their business. Roger focuses on how the economy really works and on the links between FT100 reward systems, the behaviour of banks and economic instability. He also researches his clients trading environment as a necessary component of his teaching. His book ‘Making Sense of th
We are all too familiar with the steep rise in unemployment over the last 18 months and, without doubt, many of our members have had to shed some staff to survive. However, it does beg the question of how SMEs are going to respond as recovery slowly ensues – when staff are at lower levels, the slightest of green shoots may be enough to strain the capacity of some businesses. Those who did make deep cuts in their workforce early in the recession may now need to re-staff, but with the peaks and troughs of the W-shaped recovery Vistage UK’s top speaker and leading economist Roger Martin-Fagg predicted, it seems many may do so carefully – perhaps usin
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I read with interest reports this week that Adam Posen, the newest recruit to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, believes that the financial system is not yet equipped to support a sustainable private-sector led recovery and this could trigger a double-dip recession.
Mr Posen’s main area for concern is the possibility of the Government reducing significantly its current level of support for economic activity before the financial system is fixed. He believes the result would be a shortage of credit for small and medium-sized non-financial enterprises – the types of business which benefit most from
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Remember that old joke about laying all the economists in the world end-to-end and them still not reaching a conclusion? Very unfair, of course. The fact that we, at Vistage UK, believe in economic forecasting is easy to see – just look at the regular predictions we issue, prepared by Roger Martin-Fagg, one of the best practitioners around. I was reminded of that old insult, however, when I read reports this week that the Ernst & Young Item Club believes the UK economy is already out of
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Vistage UK speaker Roger Martin-Fagg has released his October 2009 economic update for the UK, available to Vistage UK members
In the report Martin-Fagg says there's no quick, or even slow-paced recovery on the horizon. He projects a "W-shaped" recovery. In this scenario the UK will have a second leg of decline, not quite as severe as the first leg. That second leg will come as the government money t
