Business or Personal?: How family, heart and humour shaped everything

With humour as a shield, love as an anchor, and leadership as both gift and burden, Business or Personal? reveals the rollercoaster of a life where business and family were never separate but inextricably linked.

This is not a textbook – it’s the warts and all story of a business life lived at full tilt: the triumphs and tribulations that make headlines, the crises that nearly break you, and the impact of an intertwined personal and business life that rarely gets spoken about.

This is the moving, funny and brutally honest story of one man’s journey from an unsuspecting young leader of a family business to Group CEO of a public company. Along the way came victories worth celebrating, heartbreaks that reshaped everything and the constant juggling act of spinning far too many plates.

More than a memoir of boardrooms and balance sheets, it’s an often hilarious and moving story of the absurdity of ambition and the priceless value of laughter and love in the face of it all.

Get the book: Amazon.com

About the Author Paul Fineman

Having guided his much-loved family business, Anker International PLC, through to its acquisition in 2005, Paul Fineman became Group CEO of International Greetings PLC in 2009 and stayed until 2022. He led IG’s transformation into a global multi-category business, growing it into the world’s largest consumer gift packaging company with $1bn revenue. After 13 years at the helm, driving expansion and acquisitions and steering the Group through COVID, he now mentors future leaders, explores new ventures and spends as much time as possible with family, friends and enjoying his passions.

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