How Mark Swallow Really Got Into His Stroke ; Tom Fleming Talks to Mark Swallow, Knight Frank's Man in Birmingham, About Discos, Rowing and Ambition
Birmingham Post › June 30, 2007
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Knight Frank has rather a lot to thank Mark Swallow's old housemaster for. But for him, the career of the head of its Birmingham office could have turned out very differently.
Mark always dreamed he might one day become a surgeon - his grandmother always thought he would be a doctor - but that was before the housemaster at his Northamptonshire boarding school stepped in.See the full content of this document
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How Mark Swallow Really Got Into His Stroke ; Tom Fleming Talks to Mark Swallow, Knight Frank's Man in Birmingham, About Discos, Rowing and Ambition
"It still slightly galls me to this day," said the 48-year-old. "I was an extremely keen oarsman when I was at school, rowing regattas like Henley, and was unceremoniously dropped from the first eight.
"The Housemaster didn't bother telling me to my face, just pinned the team on the board. That was really it for me after that and I just became totally disincentivised and my academic work went out the window."I can look back now and it was a salient lesson for me in terms of understanding man management and how not to do it but at the time it was a real kick in the teeth. I suppose th...See the full content of this document
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