Gord v Dave?
You can't help but smile some times....following a conference speech earlier this year where David Cameron was my 'warm up' man, I ended up being invited to 10 Downing Street for tea with Desmond Tutu and Sarah Brown....and now Janet (my long suffering, but amazing assistant) has just emailed me to say that Gordon Brown has invited me round for a quick sherbert at No.10 later this month.
We are having the most insane time at work at the moment - I started at 4am yesterday just to fit in all the work I had to do - as well as a quick lunch with Doug Richard (former Dragon's Den) who is my new business guru - he's genuinely awesome. Everybody is run ragged....but, if you could see what's coming in the next few weeks and months you'd be buzzing too.
There are so many challenges that we have to overcome, but when you have a team like we do I swear I could tell them all to go and climb Everest next week and they'd find a way to do it.
And I'll be telling Gordon that too......
About the Author
Hi there, I'm Duncan Goose the founder of Global Ethics, the company behind the One brand and I'm really delighted that occasionally I get to jot down a few thoughts here on our blog. My background is in marketing but the catalyst for creating Global Ethics happened as a result of a two year motorbike trip around the world between '98 and 2000.
It was an amazing odyssey and I was fortunate to have people all over the world take me under their wing when it went wrong - as it sometimes did. I learnt a lot about humanity and about the kindness of strangers.
When I left, I knew 3 neighbours in my street in London, and having just moved in London again, I've made a point of getting to know all of them. I often say that if you knew a neighbour in your street was starving, or dying of HIV, you'd do something to help them and this is kind of what One has started to do - abeit on a global scale. We're all neighbours, but sometimes we just don't realise it.
We're changing lives, one person, one day at a time. It's a legacy project - but one we can all be part of.
And it's hugely exciting.
