Download or read book To The Edge written by Malcolm McClean and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are not living on the edge, then you are taking up too muchroom Think of the richest square mile in Britain and your thoughtsturn to The City of London or Chelsea. In fact, a small village inCheshire is home to more millionaires per square mile than anywhereelse in Britain. It is a place where one-in-twenty houses sells formore than £1 million, 20% of the residents enjoy aseven-figure income and in an index of ‘poshness’Alderley Edge scored 136 out of a maximum 137. The media like to focus on the glitz and the glamour, an imageof a shallow nouveau riche. But that is not the real story. Theentrepreneurial spirit is concentrated in these streets likenowhere else in Britain. These are self-made people, entrepreneurswith amazing stories of triumphs, tribulations, disasters and incredible recoveries. There isanother side to Alderley Edge and the ‘GoldenTriangle’, one that the outsider would not necessarilysee… PRAISE FOR TO THE EDGE ‘Malcolm McClean has an incredible knack for uncoveringthose small insights which can make a big difference. In thisinspirational book he gets inside the minds of wealth creators asonly he can. These are the people that drive our economy. Theirquirky, unusual and sometimes extraordinary way of looking at theworld is one which we should embrace.’ --Lord Mawson OBE,Founder the Water City Group & President of CAN