Future Focus 09 - Richard Farleigh Interview

Successful business professionals have an animal instinct to change and survive according to Richard Farleigh. He should know. Having been described as backward by a school-teacher, his career path has ranged from stock market trading in Australia and running a hedge fund in Bermuda to investing in technology companies in Britain. His face is most familiar, of course, as one of the investors in the third series of the TV series Dragons Den.




Farleigh is going to bring a hard-edged business flavour to the Future Focus conferences taking place in June, at which he is the keynote speaker. He has commercial interests in dozens of companies and has seen them all having to get leaner and meaner over recent months. Some businesses are still recovering from the shock, he says, but cleverer businesspeople have now moved on to focus on strategic planning.




In the short taster video recorded to outline some of the subjects to be covered in his presentation, Richard concludes Those that dont adapt to change will die. When the economy moves back into growth, there is no way it will it return to business as usual. Economic problems have triggered a fundamental change in the shape of business, and the winners will be those that learn about the changes and re-engineer their businesses accordingly

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[lll4577]

He has nice hair and is stylish great to listen to cool

[hunkyfunkster]

shame he was sacked! he seems the most intelligent! of the dragons, very laid back, seems like a nice guy, i think maybe that was his downfall on dragons den, too NICE!

[ladronita]

I could listen to this guy speak forever.

[danishh1]

Fantastic Entreprenrial spirit

[purplestars77]

i love him