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Be Inspired
Be Inspired: play to your strengths to become a leader
Retail workplaces are challenged right now and can therefore be demanding environments to work in.
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Be Inspired
Why promoting diversity and inclusion really matters
Today’s retail industry needs to not only enhance opportunities for women but diversify entirely to meet the challenges of retail’s evolution.
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Analysis
Analysis: Who are retail's next CEOs?
Retail Week speaks to the industry’s top headhunters to find out who will be in the next wave of retail chief executives.
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Analysis
Tech. talking points: AI, tech talent and marketplaces
From AI to the speed of innovation and the dearth of women in digital careers, Tech. 2018 covered some of the biggest retail issues of the moment.
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Analysis
Digital Power List: Tech titans thrive but where are all the women?
Jeff Bezos may have topped the Digital Leaders Power List for the fourth year running but that doesn’t mean that UK retail is now controlled from a giant skyscraper in Seattle.
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Opinion
Be Inspired: Four steps to career success
When you can do 80% of your job, it’s time to move on. This was just one of the many key takeaways from the latest Be Inspired workshop, which centred on how best to further your career.
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Opinion
Opinion: It's the beginning of the end for retail's dinosaurs
Last month I had the privilege of speaking at Retail Week’s Be Inspired conference. Our panel discussion – ‘working with dinosaurs: how to overcome unconscious bias’ – brought back some vivid memories of my formative years at Ann Summers.
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Be Inspired
Be Inspired: Leaders reveal secrets to career success
With Be Inspired back and bigger than ever for 2019, we look back at some of the insights from retail leaders at last year’s event.
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News
Be Inspired: 20% of women quit over flexible working
Retailers need to create more flexible conditions for working mothers to stop losing talented employees, sector leaders have warned.
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News
Agenda: Carpetright, John Lewis Partnership and Be Inspired
Retail Week looks ahead to the next seven days, with updates from Capetright and John Lewis Partnership on the agenda, as well as the Retail Week Be Inspired conference.
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Opinion
Reality bites: Only 15 women are on our Power List
Every year that I put together the Retail Week Power List, I wait for the accusations of sexism. “Where are all the women?” come the cries. I agree: where are all the women?
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Analysis
Retail Week Power List 2018: Five key trends
We look at five of the biggest trends in the Retail Week Power List 2018, in association with Medallia.
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Analysis
Five things retailers can learn from InterContinental Hotels
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is one of the world’s leading hotel companies and employs more than 375,000 people across the globe.
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Be Inspired
How Deliciously Ella went from blogger to brand owner
Deliciously Ella – the keynote speaker at Retail Week’s Be Inspired conference – shares her journey from blogger to businesswoman and gives advice for budding entrepreneurs.
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Be Inspired
Be Inspired: What makes Sir Ian Cheshire ‘batshit’ crazy?
Sir Ian Cheshire said that his time as a retail chief executive at B&Q was peppered with one very particular frustration.
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Analysis
Be Inspired: Three women who changed retail
Retail Week speaks to three female entrepreneurs whose pioneering business ideas have changed the retail landscape over the past three decades.
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Retail Voice
Why luxury brands need to take control online
Sales of luxury goods online may have challenged critics but it is time brands wrestled back control from third parties and delivered the experience customers expect.