Friday High Five: The best business conversations happen off the record, not on it

This week's Friday High Five is a shorter one, because this week has been less about chasing stories and more about sitting across a table from people actually building the region's economy.

I hosted my first roundtable for TheBusinessDesk.com this week, and it's left me more convinced than ever of the value of getting people in a room together rather than just on the phone or over email.

The calibre of guests around the table was genuinely impressive, and what struck me most was how op... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...