THERE are fewer and fewer places you can go these days and feel entirely at home wearing a suit. I once went into the notorious Leeds pub the Admiral Duncan as a bet and, the drinkers seeing me and a colleague wearing suits, cleared the bar thinking we were Special Branch. When a bloke with […]
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AS the warm, orange-gold sun rose over the towering Humber Bridge just before 8am last Friday morning, it was hard to comprehend that less than two hours before I had been scraping ice off my windscreen. That, combined with a broken boiler which had meant I had to endure an ice-cold shower (it reminded me
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IT seemed a good idea at the time. When I met Jamie Roberts, chairman of the Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust, at the West Park Hotel in Harrogate in the summer, he enthusiastically told me about his daily ‘wild swim’ in the waters on his family’s estate. As I sipped my coffee and looked out at
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WHEN was the last time you got in a lift and started talking to a stranger? Other than to say: “Which floor are you going to?” I can’t remember when I randomly chatted to someone on a lift journey. The ‘Elevator Pitch’ is a concept that your initial business pitch should be short enough to
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