Interview: How not to blow it
Published:Warsaw Business Journal, 30th January 2012
Tony Goodwin, founder, chairman and CEO of Antal International, an executive recruitment firm present in 33 different countries including Poland, talks with WBJ about the thin line between success and failure in business
Following a stint in London as a chartered accountant – a career path he says he chose to please his mother – Tony Goodwin swapped over to recruitment, launching his own company, Antal International, in 1993.
Antal now has a presence in 33 different countries and is firmly established in the developing markets of Central and Eastern Europe. However, the early stages were by no means a walk in the park, according to the firm’s founder and CEO.
“With it came a list of business mistakes longer than the entire works of William Shakespeare,” Mr Goodwin said.
Antal’s CEO has since developed something of an interest in the reasons for success and failure in business, and spoke with WBJ about both this and his experiences of growing a business in Poland.
