An Accidental Eighteen Miles

Here's the first non-running post. It's from an email that I received yesterday
"Building the Creative Business Graduates and Friends

I am pleased to tell you of a new two-day executive education programme at London Business School called Growing Your Business. Modelled after the award-winning course we run annually for the Young Presidents’ Organisation, this programme assists entrepreneurs and executives running fast-growing businesses in managing the challenges that rapid growth always brings. Designed for entrepreneurs (attending solo) or their top management teams (attending as a team), the course will send participants back to the office on the following Monday with a prioritized growth plan in hand.

Growing Your Business will bring together entrepreneurs and executives from around the world to wrestle interactively with real-world case studies dealing with the challenges of high growth. Meeting the protagonists in some of these cases – live, face-to-face – will bring to life the issues they faced and how they addressed them. And building new relationships with others on the programme will extend your global network as only London Business School does so well.

With big companies likely to scale back in the face of today’s economic turmoil, the stage is set for entrepreneurs to take advantage of a less competitive marketplace. My London Business School colleague John Mullins and I hope many in the BCB community running fast-growing businesses, and/or their teams, will join us in February at the School."

I received this because of the course that I did at the London Business School at the end of 2005. I'm not going to do this course - it costs nearly three grand. But it's the sentence at the end of the last para that really intrigued me.

And in the meantime, while I haven't blogged, I've been a lot better at running. Eighteen miles on Saturday, then another six on Monday. I've got 16 miles lined up with Thom Bunting for this afternoon.