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Everyone has a voice, and an experience to share.

At Upside, we value the diversity of our team, and we wanted that diversity reflected in the work we do, but also the knowledge that we share.

And thus, Upside Articles was born. This is our library of knowledge, where we write and curate content on topics that are near and dear to our hearts.

Here you’ll find our thoughts, opinions and expertise on sustainability, people development, startups, management consulting and more!

Upside’s This is Me: Storytelling Blog

This year, the theme of World Mental Health Day was ‘Mental Health in an Unequal World’. As a part of the Lord Mayor’s Appeal ‘This is Me’ Storytelling campaign, we thought we would strike a conversation with our internal wellbeing network about what wellbeing *really* means to us.

By Rachel Wood

Founder Fridays Feature 5: Growing Your Business

Back with another Founder Friday, Matt Phelan - co-founder and Head of Global Happiness at The Happiness Index - joins us as he shares his insights on growing your business. Join us as he discusses how to ensure you have the right team around you, why you should think about hiring people who are a cultural "add" rather than a "fit" and drops two brilliant pieces of advice.

By Kalina Tomova

Mobility: The ability or tendency to move from one place to another

Part of our work over the last few months at Upside has been reviewing the current talent investment landscape. Whilst there are many great things going on, we feel that there is room to do more.

By Samuel Crump

Founder Fridays Feature 4: Advice I’d Give My Younger Self

Back with another Founder Friday, we put fashion brand With Nothing Underneath founder, Pip Durell, into the hot seat to discuss a variety of things she's learnt along her business journey - including what advice she would give her younger self.

By Kalina Tomova

Founder Fridays Feature 3: Growing Remote Teams

Back with another Founder Friday, we put Upside co-founder, Dave McGahey, into the hot seat to talk about the challenges and rewards of growing a team. We focus on the expansion of remote teams in particular and what that looks like.

By Kalina Tomova

Founder Fridays Feature 1: What I Wish I Knew

On Fridays, we will be asking founders, co-founders and startup specialists the questions we all want to know the answers to. This Friday, we welcome Wyndham Plumptre to the chair - Founder of Upside - as we ask him a few questions regarding things he wishes he knew before launching the company. Let’s dive in!

By Kalina Tomova

Technology adoption supporting charities in the pandemic

As we are all aware, the COVID-19 pandemic has had severe consequences across the world and these would have been even worse had it not been for the charities and brave volunteers that have stepped up to help in our time of need as well as the technology that has allowed them to provide this much-needed aid.

By Sam Brett

Opting Out of Triggering Communications

We are all used to the mass of promotional emails around holidays but this can be very triggering for some people, as I work in the world of digital and data it does make me question if there aren’t better ways of handling these types of occasions.

By Amelia Wrighton

Governments New Innovation Buyer

It could be argued, that in the UK currently, there could not be a more exciting time for innovation despite the backdrop of hardship that many are feeling on the back of BREXIT, COVID-19 and the economic recession underway. For this thought piece, we are focussing on the upside around these macro trends in that they are creating a kaleidoscope of innovation from regulation through to social community value creation.

By Cimple

Centralised vs. Decentralised: Was Gamestop just the beginning?

A lot has been written already about the meteoric rise in a US stock Gamestop (GME). However, what is not being widely discussed is the implications of the battle that has occured and whether this is a sign of things to come.

By Wyndham Plumptre

Growing With Our Experiences

At numerous stages of life, experiences outside of our sphere of comfort often offer the most accelerated learning and development. With input and insight from Amanda Dickens, I have taken some time here to think about how 'heat experiences' thread through our growth and how that takes shape at Upside.

By Dave McGahey

A clicks and bricks strategy can create an office renaissance. It will need to tap into our two human drivers - community and purpose.

Offices serve a great purpose, but their current design and use case will not trump the benefits of homeworking for many of us. Nor will any media or governmental nudges motivate us to head there.

By Tom Penford

Discovering A Better Life Post-COVID-19

Short reflections on the potential to discover a more inclusive, sustainable model for our global economic system Does this pandemic provide a 'keyhole' glimpse to a better way or will we return to a status quo?

By Indy Hothi

The lockdown work appreciation society.

Recently I've enjoyed reading people's thoughts on what they've discovered about themselves and others whilst in lockdown, so I thought I'd share my reflections of how my family have discovered a newfound appreciation of what everyone else gets up to during the day now that we're together 24/7.

By Amanda Dickens

The COVID-19 Domino

Our own Guy Matthews, has written a thought-provoking piece called The COVID-19 Domino. This article explores how we are facing an economic downturn with a difference and what that might mean for the future market.

By Guy Matthews

Bitcoin Mythbusting

Ever wanted to know why the media and ‘economists’ get it so wrong about Bitcoin? Here’s the Genesis Node point of view on some of the most fundamental topics that regularly appear about Bitcoin in the mainstream media, which are typically biased or poorly presented.

By Genesis Node

Business Purpose on the Frontline

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted all aspects of life. I explore how purpose plays a key role in how businesses respond to this pandemic. What are your thoughts? Do you have any examples of businesses living their social purpose?

By Indy Hothi

The Future is Talent

Part of our work over the last few months at Upside has been reviewing the current talent investment landscape. Whilst there are many great things going on, we feel that there is room to do more.

By Wyndham Plumptre

Cooking up a Culture

Want our recipe to company culture? We've collaborated with Startups Magazine to dish up what we think makes a team into a family!

By Rachel Wood

The Road to $1m per Bitcoin

Since the peak of the Bitcoin price at around $20,000 in late 2017 and the subsequent move down to a $3,100 to $4,000 range by March 2019 much has been written and discussed about the volatility of the most established cryptocurrency. Media outlets and Nobel prize winning economists have enjoyed producing ill-informed clickbait suggesting that ‘The Bitcoin Ponzi is over’ or that ‘The Bitcoin bubble has burst’. Over time the world will start to understand money and Bitcoin in more detail but for now, reporting and analysis by the mainstream media remains self-interested and rather sensationalist.

By Genesis Node

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