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14 TOMORROW’S WORLD
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Students from Portsmouth Business School on the values
Vol. 1 No. 2
and ambitions that will shape their future
19 BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT. HAVE YOU?
Why SME’s need to get smarter about recruitment
20 THE SKILLS GAP
Why a successful British company looks abroad for skilled staff
22 SKILLS FOR TOMORROW
The skills challenge is not just in schools and colleges:
it’s on the shopfloor too
24 RBLI: SPECIAL FEATURE
Royal British Legion Industries helping people back into work
28 PROPERTY
European real estate taxes; the south east’s housebuilding
challenge; the value of communication
31 PROFILE Sue Stedman, couture for corporations
34 RENAISSANCE
Southampton campaigns for the recognition it deserves
42 LOCATION, CONNECTION
How high speed rail travel is transforming Kent
46 ENTERTAIN A new service for readers from Business First
48 PROFILE Steve Solomon of RBS
50 TRAVEL Hard Times in the Big Easy
51 THE KNOWLEDGE Advice from the experts
60 THE LONELY AT THE TOP CLUB
How on accountancy firm uses adventure to inspire clients
ONTENT
65 INNOVATION AND INCUBATION
Has Mike Herd at SINC got it right?
68 CELEBRATING THE BEST
Fast Track examines some south east success stories
70 COULDWELL ON CARS
72 STATESIDE BLUES
Why there is a silver lining to the US economic gloom
74 FIRST CLASS
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The best hotel in the world; rent a supercar for the weekend;
laptop bags to be proud of
82 END PIECE
BBC reporter Malcolm Brabant couldn’t find a publisher for his
book. So he became one.
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