People | Mike Southon - Part 2
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
