My Bottom Line: Ken Olisa, Restoration Partners

Ken Olisa is the chairman of the boutique merchant bank Restoration Partners.

Ken says that in the western world businesses spend too much time looking back rather than forward. He thinks the most important questions businesses need to address are where they want to get to - and when? That, he says, helps decide the route to take in order to get there.

Ken appeared on The Bottom Line which is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service. Listen again via the podcast or watch it on the BBC News Channel

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