Hackett Media

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Thank you to our clients

Geoffrey Hackett wishes to thank all his many clients from more than twenty years.

Throughout my life I have and continue to work with a rich tapestry of people from all walks of life and met characters that even Dickens could not have dreamed up, nor Shakespeare found the words to extol who have between them given me insights into commercial, Political, public, social and private life that few will have enjoyed. For all your contributions wherever you are today, thank you.

There are so many from the great and the small the famous and the infamous the wise and some less so who have contributed to the hundreds of programmes I have filmed, directed, produced or written. It is their collective knowledge and experiences won at the coal face of life that I bring to any programme, consultancy or report for a new client.

By way of example of the diverse range of knowledge from clients just two examples from the opposite ends of the working life spectrum –

A process worker at the world’s largest baked bean producer told me ‘suddenly management started listening to what we had been telling them for years now they work with us to make the best baked bean in the world’.

The Chairman of the first UK company to make a billion pound profit said to me ‘they always forget the basics, thinking there is something clever in business, business is simple, always take them back to basics.’

The power of these two statements and all that goes behind them when properly implemented make mind blowing differences to business and lives. Why not change yours?

While the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that affect each of us are we feel unique, they are rarely not something which somebody has not in someway or another experienced before. Likewise the majority of the political, environmental, social and technology changes are common to all but may be unique in the way they effect us. This however does not necessarily preclude us from drawing on the experience of others and we would be unwise not to do so.

Learning by the mistakes of our experience may be powerful medicne but it costs us far more than learning from the experienced mistakes of others. Thank you to all those whose experinces I have been privileged to draw on and be able to comunicate to others.