Sir John Harvey-Jones was a larger than life character. A successful businessman with an abundance of charisma that he used to popularise his methods and approaches on TV, at a time when management programs were uncommon and unfashionable, through the excellent "Troubleshooter" series of programs

He dies at the ripe old age of 83 and, although his TV star days are sometime behind him, he leaves a legacy that reverberates round every TV network. We are now literally falling over TV-friendly business gurus. Not many of them are in the same class, it has to be said

Sir John was a big believer that the rot starts from the top and viewers of "Troubleshooter" will recall that most shows involved Sir John tearing strips of various management teams at some point. The truth was sometimes harsh, but Sir John had the people skills to be able to deliver the truth objectively and with no shortage of his own humour

A capable man