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Kraig Kramers, one of Vistage’s most popular speakers, will be giving a talk entitled The Profitmaker’s Toolchest at the Vistage Scotland Guest Day which is being held at Maxim Office Park in Eurocentral on Friday 23rd of April.
Kraig’s theory is that all successful executives have a "toolbox" of knowledge and experience. Drawing on his own career as senior executive and as CEO in several widely diverse businesses, Kraig provides stories of success - and anecdotal but learning tales of failures -
Scottish Vistage member Graham Bell was in the news yesterday when The Herald ran a glowing piece on The Kibble Centre in Paisley, the social enterprise of which he is the Chief Executive.
The article was full of praise for the charity, the way it is run and the way in which it inspires similar organisations.
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The last few weeks have seen a series of enjoyable punch-ups between the banking industry and everyone from the Federation of Small Businesses to the Institute of Directors. In a nutshell, the banks say that their lending policies are fair and that they are lending at the levels they should be. Those who want to raise finance from the banks have a very different view of events. Speaking ahead of the FSB annual conference in Aberdeen, Scottish Policy Convenor Andy Willox OBE said ‘There is still anger in the small business community – as there is in the public at large – that the failed banks we generously bailed out have repaid us by hiking charges, squeezing credit and, in some cases, even removing relationship managers from branches.’ Not to be outdone, the
When Gordon Brown announced that Thursday the 6th of May was the date of the next election, he was simply confirming what most Westminster watchers had already guessed.
But now that the cat is finally out of the bag, politicians of every hue are promising the electorate that theirs is the only party which can be safely trusted with the economy.
After a torrid eighteen months in which the expenses scandal has ensured that trust has become a very scarce commodity, it wouldn’t be a huge surprise if
