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The qualitative difference between the interview with Alan and the other nine owner-managers illustrated a number of issues associated with Alan’s lived experience: (more…)

This relationship with N led to an opportunity to meet with B. He would become a director and eventually buy Alan out of the business:

B who I intensely don’t like; I don’t like his management style. There is very little I like about him at all; although I admire him tremendously. If I was running a business and I was in trouble he would be the person I would want to talk to because he knew everything. (more…)

Alan was in his late forties at the time of the interview. He acquired a specialist training college in his early thirties employing approximately 40 people. He sold this business ten years later and became an executive in a construction company, then sold his interest and set up a retail business with a chain of three outlets. (more…)