In the week that Prime Minister David Cameron made the historic decision to veto a new European Union treaty, we review our blog interview series on the life-changing decisions made by world-famous leaders in business…
The final interview in Grant Thornton’s My Big Decision series of life-changing business decisions is with tech entrepreneur and former Apple chief evangelist Guy Kawasaki, who talks about the moment he ‘wimped out’ of law college and went into the computer business instead.
We celebrate our 10th My Big Decision podcast with a critical moment of indecision. We talk to former Harvard Business Review editor, Rules of Thumb author and business columnist Alan Webber on the weekend many years ago that sealed his fate.
Like many serial entrepreneurs, Luke Johnson believes in getting off your behind, facing down the risks and rising to a challenge. Never more so than in 1992, when he was living on an overdraft in order to help finance a reverse takeover of Pizza Express. It was a transformational moment, which he relives here as the latest subject of Grant Thornton’s My Big Decision series.
Here on Elevate – for business leaders, we write for and about those dynamic entrepreneurs and business leaders who have already ‘made it’ and are heading up successful companies, many in the corporate mid-market. But our next My Big Decision interviewee has got us thinking about how these CEOs started out and how a new wave of entrepreneur clubs and support networks is supporting British enterprise.
Seth Godin has the top-ranked marketing blog in the world, is the author of 12 best-sellers and invented the concept of permission marketing. But in his days as a book packager, he was hated by his biggest-paying client and had to make the toughest of business calls, as he reveals in Grant Thornton’s new My Big Decision interview.
We’re pleased to announce that our next My Big Decision interviewee will be the world-famous marketer and blogger, Seth Godin – coming shortly on Elevate.
Interspersed with him talking about a critical decision he has made, however, are glimpses of the Kewpie Doll and figures collection he keeps in his office - ending on shot of a Seth Godin ‘Mini-Me’. Yes, it seems the man has his own action figure! Here’s the story of the doll…
She’s the woman who plugged the caffeine cravings of a nation when, together with her brother, Bobby, she founded Coffee Republic in 1995. Now in Grant Thornton’s My Big Decision series, Sahar Hashemi talks about the trauma of giving up the high street coffee empire she’d built brick by brick.
Sahar Hashemi is the co-founder of Coffee Republic, one of the most powerful women in British business and author of new book for entrepreneurs, Switched On . She’s also the subject of Grant Thornton’s next My Big Decision – coming soon. Here she talks about being an entrepreneur within the corporate environment.
Setting up a technology-oriented investment firm just six months after the dot com bubble burst may sound like risky business. But as entrepreneur and BBC Dragon Julie Meyer explains, in Grant Thornton’s My Big Decision series, it wasn’t just for the money…
George Davies is big in women’s clothing – so to speak. He launched Next, George at Asda and per una at Marks & Spencer. But, says Britain’s ‘King of the High Street’ – the latest subject in Grant Thornton’s My Big Decision series – knowing what it takes to launch a brand just made his recent decision even tougher…
The co-author of Freakonomics (and now SuperFreakonomics) reveals how he gave up a record deal and a career as a rock star to pursue a normal family life – only to become a famous author instead, thanks to his best-selling ‘rogue economics’ books. But as Stephen Dubner tells Grant Thornton’s My Big Decision podcast, his songwriting skills still infuse his work…
What was the moment that changed everything for Tim Harford and led him to become one of the UK’s most renowned economists? Grant Thornton’s My Big Decision series continues by asking Tim Harford, the FT’s economics agony uncle and author of The Undercover Economist, about his big decision, how his business bestseller came into being and discovers along the way how he proposed to his wife – thanks to economics theory.
Ever looked back and thought, ‘That was the moment that changed my life’? In Grant Thornton’s My Big Decision series, we’re asking prominent business individuals about the critical moment that changed their lives forever. This month, it’s the turn of Chris Anderson, author of the controversial new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price...
We’re very excited to announce that Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine and author of The Long Tail and equally controversial new book Free, is the next subject of Grant Thornton’s ‘My Big Decision’ series.
Ever looked back and thought, ‘That was the moment that changed my life’? In Grant Thornton’s new My Big Decision series, we’re asking prominent business individuals about the critical moment that changed their lives forever.
