Sporting Failure meets Business Success

Jan Cunningham believes in failure. He may have helped put Ulster Rugby on the world stage as European champions with a stunning victory in the 1999 Heineken Cup. But he contends that even that great team had more failures than successes. It's what you learn from the failures that makes all the difference. 25 years later and Jan is now Managing Partner at one of Northern Ireland's leading independent law firms, Millar McCall Wylie. On this episode he explores with Jim how he uses his elite sport experience to help guide his business decisions today and ensure that his law practice can continue to grow in an ever-changing and increasingly competitive market. Clare Guinness of Belfast Chamber joins the discussion and has an elite sports reveal of her own.

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