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Vistage Scotland hosted a highly successful member guest day in Edinburgh yesterday. Around fifty Vistage Scotland members and guests were at the Merchants’ Hall to take part in Larry King’s presentation on Building an Entrepreneurial Team for Strategic Success. A Vistage Speaker of the Year in North America, Australia and Asia, Larry has given over a thousand seminars in six continents over the last twelve years and his experience shone through. Starting from the basis that ‘leadership is accomplishing significant things through other people’, Larry led the audience through a series of dynamic group workshops that illustrated his ideas on the role of the CEO. Much more interactive than a simple speech or talk, the session encouraged each table to discuss their own experiences and exchan
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The Bank of Scotland’s latest PMI Report makes for cheery reading. The full report is here but the headlines are as follows: Recovery in Scotland remained tentative in August, but outpaced UK trend Activity rose in both manufacturing and services Scottish firms increased headcounts in line with higher output It’s not all good news. The report goes on to note that the ‘headline index is unchanged from July at 53.0, signposting only a moderate rise in output. ‘Underlying data continued to highlight marked divergences between the performances of the manufacturing and services sectors, with by far the more robust recovery seen in the goods-producing sector. Meanwhile, new order growth was only margi
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Pawnbrokers are in the news at the moment with recent pieces in The Telegraph, The Guardian, Metro and
In the latest edition of Scotland’s CA Magazine, Gareth Magee, a partner at the Scott-Moncrieff firm of chartered accountants, recalls his experiences on a recent business trip to America.
While acknowledging that businesses on that side of the Atlantic are certainly not wearing rose-tinted specs when it comes to the economic landscape, Mr Magee is full of admiration for the Americans’ get up and go, their can do attitude and their productivity. He wonders what Scotland might learn from such dynamic optimism.
Naturally, a positive attitude will only go so far. If your business model is bust, your staff are leaving and the bank is calling in its loans then a cheery smile won’t be a great deal of help. Moreover, the ‘Have a nice day’ culture can grate a little in Scotland, a co
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Vistage member Michael Laing owner of Laing the Jeweller is also Chairman of the Incorporation of Goldsmiths and through them developed the Silver of the Stars project. Michael has this to say about the project
"Although our goal is to promote design and craft skills of our artist-silversmiths, I realised we could attract much wider audience through association with c
The Edinburgh International Festival will come to an end this Sunday and, as always, the grand finale will be the spectacular fireworks display over the Castle.
For the last sixteen years, the Bank of Scotland has sponsored the event but, in July, they indicated that this was the last year that they would do so. Now part of the Lloyds Group, which has shed some 15,000 jobs si
