Ben Fogle: send bosses into the wild with a tent
by Tom Levitt from on (#1G30G)
The adventurer is convinced that managers can transform their businesses by spending time camping out in the wilderness
When it comes to the great outdoors, Ben Fogle is easily excited. After asking him a question about the benefits of working-age people getting out into the wilderness, he quickly launches into a passionate response.
"It gave me more pleasure than I can even explain to you," he says about a recent meeting with three factory workers from Manchester, as he describes them, on the summit of Scafell Pike in the Lake District. The three men, probably in their 40s and a little overweight, he says, did not look like your typical hikers on England's highest mountain.