{"id":237,"date":"2018-10-10T14:26:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T13:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=237"},"modified":"2020-10-15T14:48:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T13:48:14","slug":"gary-walters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2018\/10\/10\/gary-walters\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Walters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">United Kingdom<br \/>\nThe Kent MBA 2018<br \/>\n(Part-time)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cI would like to develop sustainable businesses that resolve some of the emerging tensions between public, private and third sectors.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am Managing Director of a farming company that is diversifying into other business lines. I had a career in public service in London so arrived relatively late into the world of farming, commerce and rural life. I have always lived on a steep learning curve; occasionally I think it would be nice to be on a flat straight road but I doubt whether it would prove as interesting!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Experience<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Making the transition from a career path in the public sector to the private sector presented a number of interesting challenges. I have had to find ways to manage my clear knowledge gaps and to date, I seem to be doing OK.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Aspirations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I would like to develop sustainable businesses that resolve some of the emerging tensions between public, private and third sectors.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Advice<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I am studying\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/291\/kent-mba\">The Kent MBA<\/a>\u00a0to try and find an answer to this very question!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>To find out more and apply for the Kent MBA at Kent Business School, visit <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/291\/kent-mba\">The Kent MBA<\/a><\/strong><strong> webpage.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Kingdom The Kent MBA 2018 (Part-time) \u201cI would like to develop sustainable businesses that resolve some of the emerging tensions between public, private and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2018\/10\/10\/gary-walters\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[199953],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}