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Wuhan Mayor, British Consul-General, AZ, BP, Deloitte, ThoughtWorks, CBBC and Team Kapital are speakers at digital conference

The China Britain Business Council (CBBC) coordinated an important event this week: a digital conference Chaired by the Mayor of Wuhan Zhou Xianwang, British Consul-General Gareth Hoar, CBBC Chief Exec Matthew Rous and an experts panel made up of Laurence Huang VP of AstraZeneca China, Ying Jiang Asia-Pac President of Deloitte, Zhiqiang Zhang Global VP of BP, Song Zhang GM of ThoughWorks China and Dr Simon Haworth Director of CompanDX/intellomx, Team Kapital, DynastyBio and the Sino-UK Fund.

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Tags: AstraZeneca, BP, CBBC, china, Consul-General Gareth Hoar, Deloitte, Mayor Zhou, ThoughtWorks, Wuhan

Live with passion

So I managed to fit in a single day’s skiing last Sunday.
Nothing very remarkable about that, you might think, until you learn that I haven’t skied for 20 years despite it being one of my passions in life. The reason for this (previously) sad state of affairs is a long story but the Lesson Learned was as obvious as the skis on my feet: if you have a passion in life, in business or in pleasure, then don’t let ...

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Tags: leadership, lessonlearned, passion, skiing

Price matters … in green decision making

There I am, at a gas station in the wilds of Michigan and still some miles North of Detroit, filling my giant, rented SUV and the fuel pump … stops. Something is wrong. The car was almost empty – I have driven for a good 30 miles, slowly, fuel indicator unmoving on red, looking for somewhere to fill up. But the dial on the pump says I have put less that $100 in to the tank so either the car’s fuel guage is faulty or the tank is only about half ...

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Tags: asia, lessonlearned, motive, passion