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Guy Rigby's Blog
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A nation of entrepreneurs
Napoleon said we were a nation of shopkeepers, unfit for war against France, but are we in fact emerging as a nation of entrepreneurs, ready to take on the world?
At a recent breakfast held by the Non-Executive Directors Association David “Two Brains” Willetts, the Conservative MP for Havant and Shadow Secretary of State for Universities and...
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M&A is back, so be prepared!
I’m no pundit, but all my senses are telling me that 2010 could be an awesome year for ambitious, well run, businesses. As someone told me earlier this week, luck happens when opportunity and preparedness collide. So, as the well known motto goes; “Be prepared”!
Here are five reasons for my enthusiasm:
The world economy is recovering....
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Vision 2020- Five key themes for the next decade
Doesn’t time fly? Now we are in 2010 it’s time to consider some of the themes for the next ten years. If they are anything like the last ten, the world will look very different in 2020.
So what are the five key themes that I am thinking about as we begin a new decade?
Globalisation….is not something that is going...
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Bankers, bailouts and bonuses- How to repay the debt
Political posturing, regulatory threats and an outraged media have done nothing to address the real issues surrounding bankers’ bonuses. The unanswered question is how some of the world’s banks, firmly on the ropes a year ago, are back in the business of paying mega-bonuses for 2009, claimed by some to be at all time record...
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How to win the lottery- Part 2
Amanda Shaw of WiFi Solutions UK Ltd and Peter Brown of Flair Leisure Products Plc liked my recent post on ”How to win the lottery” and sent their own inspiring stories, reproduced with their permission below:
Amanda Shaw- WiFi Solutions UK Ltd
I started my company, WiFi solutions UK Ltd when my husband’s firm, Kodak, closed down on 31st December 2006! It was such a...
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