... death in 1991) appeared to possess and portray extremely different management styles and techniques, their start in life and progression into the business world was quite similar. Neither would be considered to have taken a conventional route into management. Maxwell claimed to be self-educated, he moved into a life of publishing after the war. His move was to Berlin, to start publishing scientific journals and the place in which he founded 'Permagon Press' the first branch of the Maxwell Empire, in 1940. Before becoming the owner of Mirror Group Newspapers, the organisation for which he was better known. Richard Branson was a dyslexic child who was frustrated and confused by an education system, which was not sympathetic enough or responsive to his condition. Branson believed that school was not sufficiently challenging to him and left school at the age of fifteen. Both Branson and Maxwell entered the corporate world with no practical ...

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