 | Business as Unusual: My Entrepreneurial Journey - Profits with Principles author: Anita Roddick asin: 0954395956 |
I've just seen the sad news that Dame Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop, has died from a brain haemorrhage.
Hers is an amazing entrepreneurial story, and what's more she was then willing to write and speak about her experience to encourage a whole new generation of entrepreneurs - especially women entrepreneurs.
If you haven't read it already, I highly recommend her autobiography - 'Business as Unusual'. She started in 1976 with one small shop and no experience of business - and now there are over 2000 Body Shops worldwide.
She's now been taken back to the big store in the sky to be recycled, and she'll be missed.
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Wed, 09/12/2007 - 13:22
Update:
Here's an interesting article of business lessons we can learn from Anita Roddick:
http://www.foundread.com/view/leadership-what-you
In summary they are:
1. Take your business personally
2. Be daring. Be first. Be different.
3. Be good.
4. Business is not beyond morality
5. Business is like activism
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