Simon Kuper at The Reform Club

About this episode

Simon Kuper discusses the lessons business can learn from sport at a networking event.

A first networking event in years - a breakfast event at The Reform Club on Belfast's Royal Avenue in the company of business leaders, listening to journalist Simon Kuper talk about what business can learn from sport. Simon has written books on Barcelona, taking a different approach to Damian Hughes but also writes extensively across other areas than sport. A journalist for the FT he brought a perspective to the topic that has me moderating my own view - that sports teams and business teams are very different my nature - there are clearly some areas of crossover. A very worthwhile event and grateful for the invite as well as the opportunity to meet some very interesting people from different corners of the north. (thanks to Joanne at Clarendon and AAB and MLN.)

People in this episode

Guest: Simon Kuper

Topics covered

• business
• sport
• networking
• journalism

Keywords

• Reform Club
• Belfast
• business leaders

Mentioned in this episode

Products: books on Barcelona

Places: Belfast, Barcelona

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