CEO Secrets: Advice, insights and stories from the popular BBC video series

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Finding his purpose gave Andrew that sustainable energy source to be better than what he thought he could be and to keep pushing forward.

Dougal Shaw grew up in Edinburgh and read History at University of Cambridge, staying on to complete a PhD and subsequently moving into the world of features journalism. In a world where both boardroom diversity and the gender pay gap are common topics of controversy, we wanted to understand what the split between male and female CEOs looks like at the world’s most popular brands.

He wanted to identify all the patients in his own clinic who had a specific abnormality, or a spot on the lungs that could become a cancer. He did not found the company he oversees but spent 11 years working for the company before he became CEO.

I have picked out some of the deeper purple passages, which are to me what makes this book so much more interesting than the usual dry-as-dust ‘how to succeed in business’ books, but CEO Secrets is by no means all garment-rending and emotional sharing.That is why every growing company, regardless if they choose to pursue a patent or not, should have an Intellectual Property (IP) strategy to help them develop, grow, leverage, and monetize their portfolio of IP assets such as patents, copyrights, trademarks, etc. Set your smartest people on the most boring tasks,” Brent Hoberman, the entrepreneur behind lastminute.