‘Could haves’ and ‘should haves’ hold you back from living your one precious life more fully. Unnecessary baggage that weighs you down. “Regret is the thing you should fear most. Not failure. Not even ridicule. For it is regret that weighs you down.” Linda Holt. In just one minute you could feel more alive and [...]
Latest News. ‘How To Fly High’ success stories shared by the Press. It is fantastic to see Alan Ridealgh, MD of Muntons Plc, receiving press coverage in the East Anglian Daily Times for a snippet of the learning that he shared in 'How To Fly High', the book specifically designed to help those in business to learn from each other. Part of [...]
About the Author Angela Dellar started her career qualifying as an accountant with KPMG where she gained wide exposure to a variety of sectors: oil, insurance, brewing, petroleum, professional services, graphic designers, construction and even an abattoir, to name a few. She loves getting under the skin of any business by having a walk-through from [...]
High growth entrepreneurs share their personal learning for free to benefit SME’s In "How To Fly High", business owners and leaders share the personal light-bulb moments that shifted their thinking to achieve business growth, including Majestic Wine's Rowan Gormley, ‘there was a dawning realisation that I had to change’. The inspiration for the book came from a [...]
Welcome to How To Fly High This book tells a story. It's the story of every entrepreneur and senior leader in business. I've interviewed founding entrepreneurs and leaders and you can read what they had to say, in full and in their own words, about the highlights and lowlights, what they learned and how they [...]
Peter Jarvis: “Be the leader you want to work for” Contechs was founded in Essex in 1997 and initially focused on supplying CAD services to Ford and a number of automotive suppliers. It achieved steady, organic growth, extending its engineering services and making a series of strategic business acquisitions. Contechs opened its current office in [...]
Rowan Gormley: “Ask, don’t tell, if you really want your business to grow” Rowan Gormley is one of the UK’s most successful serial entrepreneurs and, like all successful entrepreneurs, has collected some scars along the way which ultimately have helped him to achieve his success. Rowan qualified as an accountant, but hated it so much [...]
Dr Louise Beaumont: “David vs. Goliath looks like a fair fight in comparison” Dr Louise Beaumont explains how Alternative Finance was born and the scale of the task involved in growing a new industry to service the engine room of the UK economy, the country’s SMEs. Welcome and thank you for being involved. How did [...]
Alan Ridealgh: “Be true to yourself and people will follow” Alan Ridealgh is MD of Muntons, a company which produces around 180,000 tonnes of malt each year, enough to fill over ninety Olympic sized swimming pools, using barley mainly grown within a fifty mile radius of their maltings at Stowmarket in Suffolk. The malt produced [...]
Russ Stilwell: “Be true to your values” Russell Stillwell's story is unique in this collection; he started out in his chosen career path early. He began his apprenticeship to train as an electrician following his work experience at school, aged 14 (albeit he completed his GCSEs). He found his pathway from a young age and [...]
