‘Win or lose you should behave the same’ – Tanni Grey-Thompson on going from the Paralympics to parliament Opinion Sport and politics are really similar, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson tells Michael Hayman in an interview for City AM “The moments I’ve got to bring about change could be few and far between… make the most of the time you have.” A message about the urgency of political transformation. Words that any new government should heed [...]
The Notebook: Michael Hayman on getting Britain’s trade mojo back OUR GUEST TODAY Every day we invite London's movers and shakers to hold the notebook pen
Change Makers: “Let’s make it last a hundred years” CHANGE MAKERS The Change Makers podcast hosted by Michael Hayman tells the stories of the entrepreneurs, politicos, and leaders changing the world around us. In the second of a series, Michael writes for City A.M. on the people he meets along the way.
Lord Heseltine: “If you’re only thinking about getting into politics, don’t” October 22, 2023 Lord Heseltine has seen it all on the frontline of British politics. Seven Hills chairman and Change Makers podcast host Michael Hayman meets him at home.
Shunting civil servants around the UK will never deliver what enterprise can February 8, 2022 You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. Advice from the past that seems pertinent to a government committing levelling up into law. What was a slogan is now “12 national missions” published in a white paper last week, to provide a central mission for government to deliver economic parity to all regions of the [...]
COP26: Good fortune and lofty statements won’t tackle climate change, but business can March 30, 2021 It is the lines of the hapless but heroic Ted Hastings, in Line of Duty, which so often steal the show. Hastings’ common refrain “now we’re sucking diesel” should set the scene for COP 26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this year. Taken literally, it is an outcome we badly need [...]
B Corps: Can business really be kind? March 15, 2021 “Business as a force for good” is the commercial equivalent of “speaking your truth”. A lightning rod phrase that divides and says much about the relationship between business and society. This month is B Corps month, which has seen a host of companies seek to spotlight a different way for business. Less the binary profit and loss, [...]
Health and wellbeing could be the business opportunity of our age February 18, 2021 Generations become defined by their obsessions, but it is often only after the event that the nature of those obsessions become clear and their consequences easier to understand. The historical bread crumb trail revealing what should have seemed obvious at the time and with them opportunities lost. But sometimes we live through periods of such [...]
Tomorrow will be a better day is a mantra for business, too February 5, 2021 “Tomorrow will be a better day.” Words of comfort from the late Captain Sir Tom Moore that will inspire a nation in the days to come. The news of his passing hit me harder than I had any reason to expect. I admired him greatly for the life he led and the dignified positivity and [...]
For the next six months, should you spend the time on survival, or plan how to thrive? September 28, 2020 “Cap’n, she can’nae take much more of this.” Who would have thought that the much loved Scotty would capture the scene not of star trekking but the more earthly matter of the mood of business here on terra firma. Make no mistake, the UK economic dashboard is blinking red, and the worry has to be [...]
