10-MINUTE MANAGER: Clear path to progress

Barry Wilkinson is managing director of Line & Length Inc.Q: Are you where you’ve always wanted to be?A: No, but I am surely on the right path.Q: What is your biggest professional challenge?A: The management of human resources.Q: What is your biggest life challenge?A: Balancing career and family.Q: When you look to the future what do you see?A: Major prosperity and happiness.Q: What is your favourite pastime?A: It includes watching cricket, Arsenal playing football, horse racing and going to the movies.Q: What is your favourite meal?A: Boy, that’s a hard one. Baked lamb and potatoes, grilled fish as well . . . but not together of course!Q: On Saturday nights where are you likely to be?A: At the movies.Q: What upsets you the most?A: Inconsiderate people who don’t return calls or ignore emails. They don’t know they are blocking their own progress.Q: What is your guiding philosophy?A: Treat people how you want to feel.Q: If you had the chance to manage Barbados for a day what would you do?A: Approve a budget to enhance the physical quality of our primary schools and institute a policy that “financial management” becomes a compulsory subject at the secondary school level.