In the Company of Heroes: Release Your Entrepreneurial Spirit and YourOrganization

In the Company of Heroes: Release Your Entrepreneurial Spirit and YourOrganization

by David Hall (Author)

Synopsis

The author looks behind the personalities to analyze what entrepreneurs actually do; and what their attitudes, motivations and experiences are. His research shows how individuals can recognize their own entrepreneurial skills and develop them.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: 1
Publisher: Kogan page
Published: 01 Dec 1999

ISBN 10: 0749430605
ISBN 13: 9780749430603

Author Bio
Few people know more about reinvention than David Hall, would-be cricketer turned construction worker turned entrepreneur and business thinker. Having failed to make it into the Yorkshire cricket team in the 1960's, he started work as an apprentice plumber, but his employer, recognizing he wasn't a 'natural', sent him for vocational guidance in London. They said I shouldn't be working in the building trade but I was better at persuading people, Hall says. The said I should be a barrister, journalist or management consultant. So he buckled down and to part-time study. After five O-levels came a diploma in management studies, then a masters degree. In 1982, he struck out on his own as a management consultant. In just over ten years, he made his company - the David Hall Partnership - a national business with 14 offices, 120 staff and a GBP6.5m turnover. After selling three-quarters of the company to the staff, he is now working independently and is one of the partners in the new e-business, Entrenet - which hopes to link entrepreneurs over the internet. He is also hoping the BBC will turn his book, In The Company of Heroes, into a TV series. He also wrote and presented the 1990s series, Winning, which won a BAFTA and is a Visiting Fellow of the University of York.