Work Like A Woman: Good business with Julian Richer

Beautiful Misfits

Mary Portas

Society & Culture, Business

4.5 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The founder of Richer Sounds is one of the UK's leading lights of responsible capitalism - in this interview with Mary, he takes us through the way he has run his business, why he decided to give control to his employees, and the launch of the Good Business Charter. Elsewhere in the last episode of this series, we join Mary and colleague Emily Bryce Perkins (Portas Agency's culture director) at the firm's Christmas party preparations, and reflect on a decade of change in UK retail and culture.

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0:00.0	Merry Christmas.
0:02.0	Merry Christmas.
0:03.0	This is coming live from Porter's HQ where they're all drinking, having their makeup done.
0:09.0	Can you hear them all laughing?
0:11.0	We're still working.
0:12.0	We're sitting next to the Christmas tree and everybody's got the champagne out.
0:16.0	We've got professional makeup artists in.
0:18.0	Yeah, because they need it here, don't they?
0:20.0	I mean, mainly me.
0:21.6	You look good.
0:22.4	It looks all right, isn't it?
0:23.3	Yeah, I haven't mine done.
0:24.6	The boys have had some beard trims.
0:26.6	Do you know what?
0:27.2	There's the chief executive running around looking under the tree.
0:30.1	She won't want to be on the look.
0:31.8	People are running away from us because they know who've got microphones.
0:34.6	She's writing last minute cars. The philosophy behind all this is that, you know, the worst thing I ever heard in business
0:40.9	when people say, we haven't, you know, hit budget so we're not having a Christmas party
0:45.1	this year.
0:45.8	Yeah.
0:46.4	Isn't that just the word?
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