Business Stripped Bare Audiobook

Read by Richard himself, Business Stripped Bare is now available as an audiobook. Richard took some time to record the secrets of his success from Necker Island.
In this extract you’ll hear Richard’s personal ethos on how a business works, and what to expect from the rest of the biggest book of the year. Extract from [...]

Virgin’s greatest challenge

Since I’ve been working with Richard at Virgin our biggest challenge has been entering into the rail industry and bidding for the franchise. At the time this was very new. The government was privatising the railways and it was a very difficult and highly competitive process.
At that time the rail industry had a poor reputation. [...]

The (sometimes) painful birth of innovation

In this piece Mark Mangan, CEO of Flavorpill, follows on from Richard’s and his Virgin colleagues’ posts on Business Stripped Bare, and shares his experience in branding and innovation.
A few months back, as Wall Street began to implode, online advertising was getting hit along with everyone else, and soon our company was in near crisis [...]

Virgin’s recipe for business success

I’m Jayne-Anne Gadhia, Executive Chairman of the Virgin Money group of companies, and would like to jump in here following Richard’s last post on what Virgin does.
There are many ingredients that go into Virgin’s recipe for business success. In fact Richard’s new book, Business Stripped Bare, discusses some of these key factors - people, brand, [...]

What Virgin does…

I’m not good at theory. Almost everything I’ve learned, I’ve learned by doing. However, Muhammad’s opinions excite me. They confirm a lot of the gut feelings I’ve developed about business over the years. And topping my list of gut feelings is this: business has to give people enriching, rewarding lives, or it’s simply not worth [...]

Watch Richard Branson’s New York video diary

Following Richard’s previous video diary of his day in London promoting his new book Business Stripped Bare, this next ‘day in the life’ film follows Richard on a recent whirlwind day around New York including TV interviews and a book signing session at Virgin Megastore in Times Square…

Social responsibility - just business

In Business Stripped Bare, I have written a chapter which tells you about Virgin’s recent adventures in the territory where business and politics meet, and asked a few questions about where the forces of entrepreneurism might be headed in the next ten to a hundred years. I don’t think for an instant that big businesses [...]

Richard Branson’s video diary

Ever wondered what a day in the life of Richard Branson was like? Well the Virgin Group chairman recorded a video diary over one eventful day while visiting London to promote his new book Business Stripped Bare.

Entrepreneurs and leadership

In 2004 I did a programme called The Rebel Billionaire for Fox Television, where I was nice to people and then had to whittle them down to a winner. In one episode, I told a participant we were going to be the first to go over the Victoria Falls in a barrel. Annie Taylor was [...]

14 and a half hours with Richard: 3pm - 10pm

Here’s the final part of my big day with Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson on his visit to Toronto to promote his Business Stripped Bare book…
3:10 pm
We head back downtown. Richard is about to become the first non-Canadian to receive the ‘Recognition of Achievement Award’ by the National Quality Institute in Canada for his success [...]