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"It needs strategic and far-sighted leadership. That has not existed, and it is clearly urgently required. We don't even know who is running it."

"I believe in always being disciplined; I think a little bit of self-discipline. I try and get in probably between four and seven sessions of some kind of exercise a week, I watch what I eat, limit my alcohol intake, and I try and get as much sleep as I can."

"I think you have to balance it off, I think I can be successful in my day job, and I’ll be better in my day job if I do these other things. I feel better for going to the gym in the morning and having an odd day when I do a detox, and I just feel overall better for it."

"Becoming a public business, it was a whole new learning for me. I was surrounded by the banking industry and I found it really difficult.So, to go into another world, I found that really challenging, but what I did, was thought ‘well they don’t really know my subject’! Once I understood that I knew my subject better than anyone else, the confidence came back, because who’s really going to question the fashion authority?"

"Sailing is so good for teaching resilience, teamwork and working towards a common cause. I would love it to be really accessible, ultimately giving many kids a chance to have a go. There’s a lot of children that may not be good at the usual school sports, but they could be really good at sailing. If they are given the chance to find their confidence, their passion, their purpose in life, sailing could be their thriving environment.”"

"Getting the mindset right in business and sailing starts from the top. You need to create a culture where people are not just focusing on their job, but also taking into account the context of everybody else’s. That is done through dialogue and teaching. With our sailing team on JOURNEYMAKER, our culture is that we all do it together and support each other. We all have bad days at the races and heads do go down. So, you have to call it out and you have to take action and talk about what was not happening and put it right. It is very much a learning culture."

"Business today is hugely disrupted all the time and its environment is volatile and very uncertain. Sailing is a phenomenal metaphor for having to cope, use, and thrive to win, by exploiting that volatility."

"It has a lot to do with how connected they feel and if there is a real flexible working opportunity. Women do have to ask and companies have to listen – if they remain rigid about how they see this world, they will lose women,”"

"Companies also have a role, as do leaders in organisations, to ensure you have a culture where you can speak up about it. Men in management have a very important role to play."

"We talk about generational changes, attitudes to work and the concept of a ‘worklife balance’. It isn’t just women who want change, and it isn’t always about parenthood, she suggests. “Men in their 30s and 40s have a very different attitude to work than their fathers. It’s much more about not letting one thing dominate [your life].”"

"Women must be willing to say: ‘I am good at what I do and this is how you’d have to act to keep me,’"

"“It is much harder being a leader when it’s tougher than when you were just rising. Leading in a variable environment means absorbing a lot of the uncertainty. It’s about being honest with what you say – and what you don’t say.”"

"Get some practical experience that will help you place in context some of the learning you’ve had and apply it in the real world. That gives you a real start in being able to decide what you want to do.""

"We’ve had to work hard at helping people understand that jobs at McDonald’s are good quality jobs with prospects. Over half of my executive team started off working in restaurants"

"It’s important for businesses to reach out but also for universities to reach into business and really understand what skills and capabilities those businesses are looking for.""

"What we tend to do is spot trends and then democratise them. An example would be cappuccinos and lattes – we saw these were growing as a trend and we thought there was an opportunity to [provide] great tasting, ethical, good quality coffee but at exceptional prices, more conveniently than some of our competitors.""

"So I did what most people never do at a really senior level, was I just thought you know what, it's time to take some time off"

"I was really focused on making sure we could have as many family-friendly policies as we could, because I had the experience of being a mum, having to come back [to work] and knowing how it made some of the new mums feel,”"

"Employers should consider giving furlough to parents – normally women – who are on the brink of burn out. People are telling me they are on the brink of quitting and if we aren’t careful when all of this is over it will be like the 1950s in terms of women’s careers”."

"My view was if we do that we will encourage more women to come back and more women to be more senior, and stay with us through their career, and it worked"

"If you haven’t got a job that is flexible in terms of the hours you can do through the day, or a company that isn’t flexible, then some women won’t be able to work during this three month period [of lockdown].”"

"You get to a stage where you say 'I've done my piece. I've grown quite a lot of shareholder value, I've done enough. And actually it needs to be a little bit more about me now.'”"

"The key challenge for higher education is to remain relevant in a changing world. We need to partner with employers to ensure that we are developing the talent that they are seeking. We know from employers that many of the key skills they are looking for are so-called ‘soft’ skills (teamwork, awareness and so on), which is otherwise known as emotional labour."

"Other challenges include maintaining quality and engagement in online learning environments, protecting student and faculty data from cyber threats, ensuring academic integrity, and updating curricula and training educators to keep pace with technological changes."

"We live in a world where, as a result of innovation, cognitive labour (which progressively replaced physical labour from the mid-19th century) is now being replaced itself by artificial intelligence"

"In my early adulthood, I spent three years in Israel, with Judaism as part of my everyday. Back in the UK, I wanted to make Judaism part of my everyday here, too — and found that Progressive Judaism matches my value system, my integrity, and the way I live."

"As Progressive Jews, we have a unique approach to how we balance commitment to our textual tradition with our commitment to moral freedom and our sense of engagement with our place in wider society."

"omething that sets Progressive Judaism apart is our full inclusion of mixed-faith couples and families, with non-Jewish members able to retain their own faith or no faith."

"We believe that Progressive Judaism has a twofold purpose: to be a force for good in the world, playing an active role in shaping a society that reflects our Jewish values; and to transform and strengthen Jewish life in this country so it’s rich, inclusive, and innovative."

"We believe that we can best achieve this as one united movement, now representing one third of all Jews who are affiliated to synagogues in the UK — and we’ll be better able to reach out to all who identify as Jewish, but have not yet joined a community."

"It now feels like an unbelievable privilege"

"We have spent the last two years in the heart of our congregations."

"And now to be able to be here, at this moment of incredible privilege – something I didn’t think I would see in my entire career."

"Being able to retain your composure under this kind of intense scrutiny and yet continue treating others with respect and humanity is the mark of a fine leader.”"

"The best leaders today exhibit what we call beneath-the-surface qualities, which fit into two categories: capacity – what they are capable of doing – and character – how they respond when dealing with new challenges or the unknown.”"

"That’s the nice thing about private equity, you can look quite far in advance at funds that you might be getting into."

"Leaders inspire by modelling the behaviours they want to see and by raising the energy of their team and the entire organisation through clear, consistent and transparent communication. Leaders who communicate well set the expectations for those who follow them."

"We all have the opportunity to make a difference and strive towards net zero. For example, we will be looking at using advanced technologies such as Digital Twins and pilots of large-scale battery storage to help us reach our goals."

"Of course, there is always room for innovation, which means we will continue to develop our technologies in a number of different ways in the future. This is one of the huge benefits of our world-renowned Innovation Festival, which has seen us working with partners on technologies such as Digital Twins and Underground Mapping to ensure that we are doing the very best for our customers"

"Within our business we have a whole range of different people doing different jobs. Our frontline operational workers, for example, have continued their work in the field and on site throughout the pandemic to keep the water flowing for our customers. However, we are currently evaluating what it will look like for our teams who have been working from home."

"Back then, sites were solely focused on price and didn’t mention the features of the policy. This meant that customers might’ve been getting cheap quotes, but weren’t offered much information on the policy and could’ve found that they were missing out on features that they wanted. I decided that I could either stay where I was, or I could start something new and make a difference. The result was Gocompare.com."

"Young people are growing up with technology as a second nature and the education system has gone from an archaic chalk and blackboard lecture, to an interactive experience that I feel is helping young people develop key skills."

"The needs of our customers have underpinned everything that we have done, and are still the most important influence on our company. This belief has not only helped us get where we are today, but has also made us the only price comparison website invited to be a member of the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) thanks to our focus on transparency and customer care."

"To succeed in business you need to be brave enough to ask the right questions and talk to the right people, it’s the only way you can learn to be better at what you do."

"I think that some women become transfixed with the ‘glass ceiling’. I’ve always thought that if you believe there is a glass ceiling, you’ll spend your life on the floor looking up at it. Anybody can be successful in any industry as long as they work hard and are nosey and noisy enough"

"If you’re thinking of starting your own online business the most important thing you can do is research the market. The internet is a fantastic tool for identifying a target market and checking out the competition."

"“I don’t feel there is at all a muttering that I’m not passionate enough about the art form"

"“I feel there is too much put on this idea of an innate collision course between your business and artistic side. They are not mutually exclusive"

"I have done a lot of work in how to handle and lead through that. I still consider that more important than a long experience of artistic administration.”"

"When I talk to our elderly patrons I say I am partly here because I want this art form to exist in 30 years and be as strong as thriving as it can.""