Main content

Secrets of Success

What it takes to make it big in the high tech powerhouse of Silcon Valley and how Turkey has transformed from basket case to economic powerhouse.

The Eurozone may be slipping ever deeper into recession but in a neighbouring economy they are busy upgrading forecasts. We'll be discovering how Turkey - once a basket case - has transformed itself into one of the world's fastest growing economies.

Silicon Valley is renowned for being the breeding ground for many of the world's greatest technological innovators, spawning tech empires like Apple, Google and Facebook. We ask how this small area of Northern California has held its lead in IT for over three decades?

And Lucy Kellaway on why successful managers shouldn't take management fads too seriously. Like fashions in clothes and hair they come and go with the seasons.

Available now

18 minutes

Last on

Mon 20 May 2013 07:32GMT

Broadcast

  • Mon 20 May 2013 07:32GMT

Podcast