People | Mike Southon - Part 2
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It is much easier these days to sell our services abroad. The main problem is that ‘abroad’ can have many different ways of doing business. For example, I had to…
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I am often asked what I think about the television show Dragon’s Den. While it has done a sterling job in raising awareness of entrepreneurship in the UK, particularly amongst…
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Over a century ago Sir Titus Salt built the village of Saltaire to provide self-contained living space for the workers at his cotton mills. This is the traditional model of…
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Many people are now starting web-based businesses, which are completely virtual. They have no formal offices or even full-time staff. But there will always be a need for local services,…
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I always thought Keith Haviland had a bright future ahead of him. Back in 1989, he was one of the shocked faces in the Slug and Lettuce when we announced…
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Sir Robin Saxby was the founding Chief Executive and Chairman of microprocessor technology company ARM Holdings. He explained to me that the hardest time for ARM was early on, when…
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I’m listening to Jamie Mitchell, UK managing director of Innocent Drinks. Jamie himself is clearly a natural; I first bumped into him in the mid-90s when he was running an…
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The biggest challenge that any of us can face is not in the workplace, but at home: parenthood. Suddenly, there is a noisy little bundle of joy who demands our…
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We all have mentors, even if we do not realise it. For people in school, it might be a teacher who is willing to spend a little extra time with…