The rollercoaster of running your own business

Róisín Lafferty shares some of the lessons she has learned from her career at the helm of her own design company

Roisin Lafferty, next presdient of the Institute of Designers

Running your own business is challenging, rewarding and also hard work. It is not for the faint-hearted. There will be days when you ask yourself is it all worth it. Those days where issues abound and you suddenly feel you are in some obscure comedy of errors, and all you can do is laugh. Thankfully those days are rare. There are special days too, the days when months, if not years, of hard ...