Miles Hillmann
2022 - Top 13 Books Review
MILES 13 BEST NON FICTION BOOKS OF 2022 I find that reviewing books helps me to understand what they are about. The reviews have my...
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Miles Hillmann
- Feb 12, 2020
- 3 min
SME Stories: Bhavic Popat
Bhavic Popat’s family arrived in Leicester as Ugandan refugees. Despite having only £42 to their name, today they are the proud owners of...
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Miles Hillmann
- Jan 30, 2020
- 3 min
SME Stories: Richard Freer
Richard Freer took over as fourth generation chairman of the William Freer Group in 1997. Over the last 20 years, the group has faced...
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Miles Hillmann
- Jan 21, 2020
- 5 min
The value of environmental credentials – in conversation with Helen Wakeham
30 years ago all our major rivers were open sewers. Now we have otters in every English county and 97% of our bathing beaches pass...
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Miles Hillmann
- Jan 17, 2020
- 2 min
SME Stories: Dave Connolly
In this interview, I talk to Dave Connolly who, with six colleagues, started Bar Squared in 2006 providing software specially tailored to...
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Miles Hillmann
- Jan 12, 2020
- 3 min
The SME guide to living with black swans
“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security”. John Allen Paulos My recent...
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Miles Hillmann
- Jan 6, 2020
- 3 min
The SME guide to dealing with risk
In 2010, at 5am on Friday, April 1, the police knocked on my door. They asked me to step outside and look at a big black cloud in the...
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Miles Hillmann
- Jan 6, 2020
- 4 min
2019 – Top 8 Books (Part 2)
I spent a lot of 2019 reading a variety of books with topics as eclectic as Victorian sailing ships, Nikola Tesla and the origin of...
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Miles Hillmann
- Dec 27, 2019
- 4 min
2019 – Top 8 Books (Part 1)
I spent a lot of 2019 reading a variety of books with topics as eclectic as Victorian sailing ships, Nikola Tesla and the origin of...
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Miles Hillmann
- Nov 29, 2019
- 3 min
SME Stories: Jan Černík
In this first of this series of interviews with leaders of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), I talk to Jan Černik about...
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Miles Hillmann
- Nov 25, 2019
- 3 min
What threatens SME business survival?
Managers of corporations and entrepreneurs gifted enough to blag money out of venture capitalists live and die on their business growth...
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Miles Hillmann
- Nov 22, 2019
- 2 min
Fukushima: A lesson in the Precautionery Principle
A couple of weeks ago I published a blog titled ‘Caution with the Precautionery Principle’. Since then Matthew Neidell and his team at...
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Miles Hillmann
- Nov 16, 2019
- 4 min
“I can only say today that the clouds are darkening as never before”
This is the English translation of the letter my father sent to his parents in September 1938. Read the full story here. Dear Parents,...
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Miles Hillmann
- Nov 11, 2019
- 4 min
Offshoring gas supplies – the trade off between UK environmental concerns and increased global
The UK will import 72% of gas requirements by 2030. Liquifying gas for import is hugely energy intensive and so importing our gas...
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Miles Hillmann
- Nov 4, 2019
- 4 min
My father, my inspiration
In this blog, I wanted to share a story about my father who, when young, escaped a forced labour camp during the war. He responded to a...
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Miles Hillmann
- Oct 24, 2019
- 3 min
Be cautious of the Precautionary Principle
The Precautionary Principle is a sensible way of minimising risk in the face of uncertainty. But preventive action can turn into...
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Miles Hillmann
- Oct 24, 2019
- 3 min
How SMEs can develop business ethically in a lawless society
Port Harcourt is not Weston-super-Mare. It is raucous, vibrant, noisy, colourful city, with big smiles and car journeys that makes...
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Miles Hillmann
- Oct 24, 2019
- 3 min
The double damage of offshoring industry and the implications for UK SMEs
Offshoring of production of UK goods has had a damaging effect on British industry and increased global carbon emissions. The...
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