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Management gems from Richard Branson
October 3, 2008
'I overcome my difficulties by concentrating'
Our model is to develop each business separately with its own shareholder and management -- this way we can concentrate on the job in hand, rather than be part of some enormous and faceless conglomerate.
Although my spelling is still sometimes poor, I have managed to overcome the worst of my difficulties through training myself to concentrate.
Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?
If a chairman of a company visits Seattle, that chairman should take all the staff out in the evening and have a few drinks together, talk together and party together and not be embarrassed about the staff seeing the weaker side of you.
Image: Sir Richard Branson (dressed as Axel Rose) launches the grand opening of the Flagship West Coast Virgin Megastore Hollywood held at the Hollywood & Highland Complex on October 17, 2005 in Hollywood, California. | Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
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