Red Business provides business leaders with information and inspiration on audio CD or as an MP3 download each month, building a library of best practice.

On this issue:

• Information:
• people: 7 c’s of change – how to maintain your company culture through change
• finance: invoice discounting – could this alternative to debt finance help your company grow?
• sales: HEMP – Peter Knight, author of the ‘Highly Effective Marketing Plan’ shares the ideas behind the book
• management: systems – small business expert Michael Gerber explains the benefits of putting systems into your business

• Inspiration:
• guru: Daniel Jones - the best selling author of ‘Lean Thinking’ explains how streamlining your business can benefit your customers and your bottom line
• leader: James Murray Wells - appalled at the cost of high street glasses, 21 year old James Murray Wells started glassesdirect.com to provide an affordable alternative – and two years later the company is steadily gaining market share