Entrepreneurs must have a sense of urgency, because markets and competitors never stand still. Trade only lives in the present or the future — yesterday is irrelevant. Inevitably, then, companies rarely think about last year’s results, old products, shuttered companies or previous bosses. Often it feels as if business…
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As you may have noticed, I’ve been absent from this column for some months — and while dealing with the disaster at Patisserie Valerie, I doubted my belief in entrepreneurship. But one’s faith in the human spirit is always boosted by meeting young people. I recently spoke to a…
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I used to think that stress was for wimps. How wrong I was. I had enjoyed a fast-paced, demanding career. I thought I could cope with anything. The truly shattering aspect of the collapse of Patisserie Valerie was that it happened so suddenly. With many corporate failures — the…
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