Rab McNeil’s Week: To paraphrase the CEO of Sunshine Desserts, I didn’t get where I am today by failing (chorus: “Yes you did!”). Fair enough, let me put it another way. I have made a success of failure. For failure, according to a top Scottish businessman, is indeed the key to success. And I use […]
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I’ll stick to living. Death is just too expensive
Rab McNeil’s Week: In order to lighten things up a little this week, I’d like to talk to you about death. Yes, that got your attention, though one gentleman has run away. Never fear. We won’t be lingering on the gory details. It’s actually funerals I’m more concerned with, after a report by consumer group […]
Pursuit of good health at a pill-popping price
Rab McNeil’s Week: Holland & Barrett. It’s the Marks & Sparks of wellness, a fixture on our high streets, into which we might pop with that same feeling that we’re not really going to be convinced by anything in it. But we still come out with something. It’s the nature of the wellness business, really. […]
Head of Panicking wanted as power corrupts
Rab McNeil’s Week: Oh, IT: such a blessing and a curse. Worse still, it’s prone to both cock-ups and conspiracies. British Airways fell victim to the former, or at least to a power surge, which knocked out its computer system, causing the cancellation of flights, chaos at airports, and angst among the unwillingly grounded. The […]
Robotic egg collectors? Or just bananas?
Rab McNeil’s Week: As someone shortly about to look after friends’ hens for a fortnight, I have taken of late an unaccustomed interest in eggs. However, my new egg-harvesting career might have a short shelf-life as robots begin to play an increasing role in the business. That’s certainly the case on one 2,000-acre farm in […]