Read & Marvel
W. Chan Kim: Blue Ocean Strategy:
How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant. Think Google, Cisco, i-pod, Swatch...Jonah Lehrer: How We Decide
A must read for all good people trying to market to savvy consumers...Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics)
Adam Smith and the Origins of American Enterprise: How the Founding Fathers Turned to a Great Economist's Writings and Created the American Economy and we know what happened to it. Benchmarking extraordinaire. As a good reminder of the philosphy of economics, read it on the train...Karl Marx: Das Kapital
"The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as "an immense accumulation of commodities"... Sometimes there is no better place than to go back to the basic principles and compare notes with where we all ended it up and how the triggers to a post credit-crunch economy may develop...a must on once bedside tableRichard Stutely: The Definitive Business Plan: The fast track to intelligent business planning for executives and entrepreneurs (2nd Edition) (Financial Times Series)
Essential tool for any business leader in planning mode! Brilliantly written by Richard Stutely having gained experience as an investment banker, general manager, managing director for a technology company and his experience at the Treasury provides a robust and rounded insight to business planning on the grandest of scales. I could not do business without it!Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Sunset Song (Penguin Classics)
I read this book when we had just moved to Edinburgh. It captured my heart and made Scottish literature something awe inspiring I'd never felt before. We moved to Aberdeenshire near to Angus and Grassic Gibbon's country. I felt that I had already seen it all through his eyes even before I came there. And he didn't let me down, au contraire, I saw the mountains and the big sky and the sea and it was just as majestic as the book described. Romance and nature of highest calibre possible. I love.Jennie Erdal: Ghosting: A Memoir
Beautifully written this sad and funny story about a relationship that was never entirely fully disclosed but essential for two people's career in the world of writing. Jennie Erdal deserves standing ovation for this novel. I love!William Boyd: Any Human Heart
A page turner perfect for dark midwinter subzero evenings by the fire. Robust prose, great characters and a yarn that spins around half the globe. William Boyd is one of THE authors of modern English litterature. I think!Annie Leibovitz: Annie Leibovitz at Work
An illuminating and revealing insight into how these photographs came to be, with text written by Leibovitz herself.
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Passionate about turning great ideas into new ventures. All things Strategy & Business Development.
Biography
Sophia Ahrel MacDonald
brings more than 15 years' experience in international marketing in high-growth environments and a top-flight track record in product and services marketing on globally and across Europe. Swedish born Sophia has developed her leadership and management expertise in previous roles as Director of New Business & Marketing for award winning global communications agency Weber Shandwick where she demonstrated how to increase the pipeline rapidly by implementing new business methodologies, strategic partnerships and by repositioning the brand. As the Sales & Marketing Director for EMEA she was the driving commercial force taking Scottish i-Play from a small start up, to create a global leader in mobile gaming securing $25M venture capital. A true believer of partnerships to succeed, she has held global and Pan-European channel and partnership positions for blue chip software houses including 3Com, Informix & Micromuse.
Sophia also has considerable experience as an independent marketing and growth specialist successfully completing a range of interim and mentoring assignments in following sectors: new media, mobile, retail, luxury goods, beauty, travel & leisure, creative & arts. A Chartered Marketer (CIM™) she combines business methodology and rigour with a passion for turning great ideas into thriving business ventures. Grove Partners specialise in interim management, business growth strategy and business mentoring for start-ups and SMBs. Client experience include: BT, McCann Ericsson, VisitScotland, Goodwille, Glen Tanar Estate & Ballroom. Besparkle and M&S.
Sophia holds a degree in Economics (BA) and speaks 6 languages and is a specialist business mentor for the Prince’s Trust* & The Rockstar Group. After many years of living in Scotland she now lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband, three children and ponies.
Interests
Arts & All things French. Riding with my daughters, skiing & sailing.
