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 [...]
Angus Thirlwell: “If you want a sustainable, profitable business, get a bit of brand WOW!’’ The very first Hotel Chocolat shop opened its doors to guests in North London in 2004. It was the start of a pioneering revolution in British chocolate. Since that Watford shop opened ten years ago, another 75 Hotel Chocolat boutiques [...]
Keith Paxman: “Don’t be fearful… grasp the opportunity and run with it” Praxis42 was born in 2001 and the management team worked together for many years before that as the occupational health, safety and environment function for a FTSE 100 communications company. Today they employ over 40 people in the UK who continue to deliver [...]
Angela Dellar: “Business success in a nutshell” Angela Dellar I’ve always loved business, understanding why some businesses achieve great success and others don’t to the same degree, and distilling my learning into simple, practical tools which I share with clients to help them succeed. In a nutshell, business success is the ability to [...]