Fail File: Vikki Maclean, Kerridge & Partners partner

Fail File: Vikki Maclean, Kerridge & Partners partner
Vikki Maclean. (Image: Supplied)
Victoria Carter
Each fortnight, Victoria Carter speaks to someone about failure, disappointment and what they learned. This week, she talks to Vikki Maclean, a partner at consultancy firm Kerridge & Partners.I was disappointed: when, back in the early 1990s, I was bankrupted by the Royal Bank of Scotland. I was a product of Thatcher, and I believed you could do anything. A friend, Evelyn Ingram, and I set up our own search company. Our expertise was manufacturing, oil and gas; we were good. The biggest recession of my life came along and hit us h...

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