An Industrial Cocktail

Lord Haslam was a giant of British industry. Widely acclaimed by business and political leaders, he had a remarkable record of reaching the top of the management ladder and staying there. Completing his memoirs while dying from cancer, he tells a compelling business story of the unexpected. Though without academic brilliance or burning ambition, he was singled out as a high-flyer, rising to the top of British industry. Yet his humor still shines through, for asked how he chaired at the same time the two contrasting businesses of sugar and steel, he disarmingly replied, "with difficulty."