Never A Dull Moment (eBook)

Pat Sheehy (Autor)

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2017
200 Seiten
Nine Elms Books Ltd (Verlag)
9781910533246 (ISBN)

Infos

Never A Dull Moment takes us on a fascinating journey that starts in pre-war colonial Burma and ends in the boardrooms of Britain's top companies. Along the way, we visit wartime Australia, and the authors time serving in the Irish Guards. Then onto West Africa on the cusp of independence and a host of other countries at critical moments in the second half of the turbulent 20th century, meeting an extraordinary cast of actors from all walks and levels of life.Pat Sheehy tells his story laced throughout with an impish sense of charm and down-to-earth humour, affectionately sketching his friends and acquaintances with a perspicacious palette. Seen through the prism of global business and international relations at one level, and of personal friendships and social initiatives at another, this is a refreshingly modest and often funny account of an exceptional career.

Inhalt

Pat Sheehy's early years - Rangoon (Burma) & Australia
School in the UK - Ampleforth
Military service in the Irish Guards
Finding a job in civilian life - joining BAT management
Training and first postings to Denmark, then west Africa - Nigeria & the Gold Coast
Promotion and sent to Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and associated adventures
Sheehy moves on to BAT's operations in Jamaica
On UK leave meets future wife Jill but the path to true love is not smooth with other ladies featuring
At early age of 29 appointed to run self-contained subsidiary company in Barbados
In 1962 Sheehy joins international marketing team in London and travels extensively around the world
But author is never far from a golf course - Sheehy's favourite game
BAT diversifies from its core tobacco business into other commercial areas
Gets married and starts rasing a family - posted to Holland as General Manager
Sheehy returns to London and appointed to BAT main board as territorial director initially for Africa followed by Indian sub-continent, Far East, Latin America, Australia and finally the US
Family holidays in SW Ireland - golf and also some entertaining Irish adventures
Maximising returns from the company's complicated S American operations
The author is able to mix busy business schedules with some Pro-Am golf tournaments playing with many of the greats such as Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Tom Watson, Greg Norman, Fred Couples, Nick Faldo and Seve Ballesteros
Appointed Deputy Chairman responsble for all BAT's US and Canadian businesses - meeting Presidents Carter and Reagan 
Pat Sheehy appointed Chairman BAT industries in 1982 
Decides expansion into retail financial services - banking and insurance - offers huge growth opportunities  
Fights off very agressive takeover bid from Hoylake consortium including Jimmy Goldsmith, Jacob Rothschild and Kerry Packer
Opens up business links with the Soviet Union and with other E European and Central Asian nations
Non-excutive Chairman of BAT, joins European Round table of Industralists and other internationals forums - meeting the likes of Helmutt Schmidt, Helmut Kohl, Jacues Delors, Henry Kissinger, President Ford, Jim Callaghan and Giscard d'Estaing
Knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace
Founds Franco-Bristish Colloque to stimulate entente between two countries
Appointed Chairman of official inquiry into responsibilities and rewards of UK police forces
Involved with developement of City Technological Colleges - other projects include Royal Commonwealth Society, and serves on boards of Cluff Mining, The Spectator, BP, and Sherritt International (as a result meets Fidel Castro of Cuba)
Final reflections on business and the world today

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Autobiography • business • Golf • Industry • International business • Irish Guards • takeover bids
• ISBN-13: 9781910533246 / 9781910533246