Whichever side of the voting fence you were on, this week has marked a momentous historical occasion.\u00a0 It is important now to focus on what comes next, but also to reflect on what we can learn from the Scottish Referendum.<\/p>\n
First of all, let me admit a bias towards ‘No’.\u00a0 So yes, I am very pleased with the result.\u00a0 I am not Scottish or even British, but I do live in England (in Doncaster, in fact, which may technically belong to Scotland!<\/a>) and I grew up as an Italian-German in Luxembourg and then moved to the UK.\u00a0 I grew up in the hub of EU activity, attending the European School<\/a>.\u00a0 I was in this hub of EU <\/a>activity when it was still the EEC.<\/a>\u00a0 I grew up in a culturally and linguistically diverse environment and am therefore more than slightly biased towards union and co-operation.<\/p>\n But this little foray into my educational past aside, I have seen how collaboration and co-operation can work in business, too.\u00a0 Whether it’s with customers, suppliers, colleagues or even competitors.\u00a0 A great example of this is the collaboration and support that professional speakers offer each other within the PSA<\/a>, even amongst those that speak on similar topics.<\/p>\nSo, now we’ve dealt with disclosure of how I feel about the outcome, here are the lessons I feel we can learn from the Scottish Referendum:<\/h4>\n