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What every ambitious business can learn from investor-backed companies

The discipline, urgency and rigour that investment brings to people decisions, and why you don’t need an investor to adopt it Private equity has a reputation. Some of it is deserved. But strip away the financial engineering, the aggressive timelines, and the carried interest conversations, and something universal remains: investor-backed businesses tend to be ruthlessly

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Building on Strong Foundations: The Next Chapter for People Puzzles

After seven years with People Puzzles, and six years as Managing Director, Alex will be leaving the business on 30 June 2026 as founder Ally Maughan and co-owner Helen Stenhouse step back into day-to-day leadership, sharing the Managing Director role. The transition has been planned over the past six months and marks an exciting new

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