Strong Woman: The Truth About Getting to the Top
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Karren Brady is an inspiration to women everywhere, and her incredible success is borne of her passion, impressive business instinct, ambition, and her very genuine, honest, down-to-earth outlook.This is Karren’s story… before being Alan Sugar’s aide on The Apprentice and VC of West Ham United, how she started out as a sparky 18 year old at Saatchi & Saatchi and at 23, went on to persuade David Sullivan to buy Birmingham City football club – turning that business round to sell it for an incredible £82 million 12 years later.Strong Woman tells how she balances her personal life with her professional, her priorities, her life as mother of two and wife. Karren reveals how she coped when doctors told her after a routine scan that she had a brain aneurysm, that she must have a complicated operation immediately and had a 30% chance of not surviving, and how it has since influenced her outlook and priorities.An overwhelmingly inspiring and real look at work and life, Karren Brady defies convention as a directional business woman in a male industry. This is the truth about how she does it, and through her experience, her drive and her skills – it offers brilliant advice on how you can do it too.
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For Sophia and Paolo.
Remember work turns dreams into reality.
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It was an unhappy place, a bit like something out of Dickens. There was a long drive up to the school with two cattle grids and you knew when you’d gone over the second that you were past the point of no return; it was just awful. My closest friend, my-all-night-in-Soho companion, who went there too, says that her lasting memory of the school is that she was always unhappy and hungry, which just about sums it up.
It was very religious, with mass twice a day. Everyone was bored and restless, and it wasn’t as though you were even getting a really good education, because the teaching was variable. And you had no life experiences, because you never met anybody. It was very isolating and I was a bit of a loner. I didn’t have many friends because I didn’t want many friends. There were a lot of geeky, closeted girls who’d never seen anything, never been anywhere, never done anything, for whom going into Ware town centre nearby was the most amazing thing you could imagine. I just found the things they were into mind-numbingly boring. They thought it was great to stay up all night reading Jackie magazine, or watch Wimbledon all day.
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