David Lorimer

Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday 12 December 2012 at 7.45 am for 8.00 am at Alexander’s Restaurant, Best Western Scores Hotel, St Andrews.

The cost of the Meeting will be £10.50 per person. As usual any guest who may be thinking of joining the Club will be welcome free of charge.

Our guest speaker will be David Lorimer, who will talk about Andrew Carnegie’s Story: Leadership, Success and Legacy – His Relevance to Management Development Today.

We are all familiar to some extent with the story of Andrew Carnegie, as being a highly successful Scottish-born businessman and as a noted philanthropist. The presentation will focus on the “Laws of Success” which he devised and which set out the key principles behind his achievements. These provide crucial lessons which we can learn and then apply to achieve success both in our professional and business careers.

David is a writer, lecturer and editor who is Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and has been Editor of Network Review for over 25 years (www.scimednet.org). He is also Chief Executive of Character Education Scotland (www.character-scotland.org.uk) and the originator of the Inspire-Aspire Values Poster Programme, which this year reached over 30,000 young people from more than 200 schools (www.inspire-aspire.org.uk).

Donald McLeod

Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday 7 November 2012 at 7.45 am for 8.00 am at Alexander’s Restaurant, Best Western Scores Hotel, St Andrews.

The cost of the Meeting will be £10.50 per person.

Our guest speaker will be Donald McLeod, a retired highly notable IT specialist, who is currently lobbying the Scottish Government with regard to rural broadband.

Born on the island of Barra, Donald has gained degrees in Maths, Physics and IT. He is a Chartered IT Professional (CITP), a member of the British Computer Society (MBCS) and has spent his whole professional life in the IT industry –

• System analyst setting up national Giro service

• Philips Industries and Strathclyde Regional Council

• Britoil / BP becoming European IT Manager

• American Company Science Applications International Corporation

(SAIC) as UK general manger specialising in the oil industry

• Part owner and director of Extramed Ltd, Scottish software company

specialising in management systems for NHS

Some of the topics Donald will be covering are –

• Broadband – What it is

• Why it matters – relevance to business, individuals

• Broadband in the context of Internet systems

• Scottish Government initiatives and other developments

Joyce Duncan

Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday 9th May for 8.00 am at Alexander’s Restaurant, Best Western Scores Hotel, St Andrews. The cost of the Meeting will be £10.50 per person.

As usual any guest who may be thinking of joining the Club will be welcome free of charge.

Our guest speaker will be Joyce Duncan, Managing Director of Impact-21, an Enterprise Trust, which is responsible for business support delivery in Fife. Its focus is to encourage enterprise and business development through support for businesses and individuals to maximise their potential through targeted business advice and training.

Its activities covers all commercial and industrial sectors and a variety of types of business including start-ups, high growth, family owned concerns, social enterprises and academic commercialisations. The services include advice, training, consultancy and project management alongside a range of business development activities, working in partnership with the private and public sectors. It is contracted to manage the Business Gateway services on behalf of Fife Council, following the decision of Scottish Enterprise to centralise its activities.