Stuart Gillies
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893 appearances
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 2 Mar
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I wasn't cooking.
I wasn't spending time in that way.
with teams as i would have done before much more focused on the the artist side of the business i was purely involved with banks finance costs resources that is a very different you know role i mean did you did you find that you could rely upon things you'd learned as chef it does mean chief doesn't it chef in french
Yeah, it does.
Yeah, boss.
It means boss.
A boss of a kitchen, a boss of a company.
All those sort of things you took from one to the other.
Well, definitely, yes.
I just transitioned from one job to the other.
Some other people I knew outside the industry who were already CEOs, they said, you know, it's going to be the loneliest job in the world, being a CEO, because you have to make tough decisions and people won't understand those decisions.
But you've got to make decisions.
Do you find that to be true?
A hundred percent, it's true.
I think the things about being a CEO, there were a couple of things I really learned.
First of all, it's the loneliest job in the world.
And secondly, you're really up against it with regards to your strategy, depending on who you're trying to keep happy.
Whether you're trying to grow the business for the future and build something, or whether you're trying to keep your shareholders happy.
Those two strategies are, in my experience, very different.
Because the shareholders had more short-term...
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