A tutorial from the business school of life

Michael Skapinker:

We cover many subjects in this section: new working patterns, women in management, immigrant start-ups, the future of computing, empowering staff, business's responsibility to society. It is a wide spread and it is unusual to find it all in just one person.

But all these themes run through the life of Dame Stephanie Shirley - child refugee, software pioneer and crusading philanthropist - who, at the age of 79, has published her autobiography.

It is called Let IT Go, the capitalised middle word a play on "it" and "information technology", which is a slightly limp introduction to the book's bracing start.

Dame Stephanie was among the last of the 10,000 German, Austrian, Polish and Czech children allowed into the UK, without their parents, as the second world war loomed. Aged five, she and her older sister tumbled on to the platform at London's Liverpool Street station, flotsam in a "river of exhausted, bewildered, tear-stained faces".

Posted by Jim Zellmer at January 2, 2013 1:13 AM
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