Which island are you?

Do you remember Hugh Grant playing the young but jaded Will in the film ‘About a Boy’, which (incredibly to me) is now fifteen years old? According to the theory he outlines at the beginning of the movie, each of us is their own island. His character doesn’t need anybody, he’s happy with just living on his own with his cool stuff. However, in this film – as in many of the Hugh Grant comedies I go back to from time to time – it always turns out at the end of the film that we are not desert islands after all: we are not able to cut ourselves off from others. And is this also true in business and politics? As the UK struggles to decouple itself from the EU, we ask whether the Polish property market, specifically the office and logistics segments, could be the beneficiaries of this, in our article entitled ‘Exit Britain… enter Poland?’. Certainly Rafał Sonik, the founder of Gemini Holding and a champion sportsman (a Dakar rally winner), who told us how to combine the two activities (in the article ‘Easy rider’), is no desert island either – and neither are those key people from Colliers International (Monika Rajska-Wolińska and Robert Karniewski), who emphasise on these pages that during a crisis it is important to remember that we are all in the same boat – and to strengthen client relations as well as support your employees. This is their recipe for how to benefit from a crisis, rather than losing out by retreating to your island hideaway. (By the way, the interview includes some other island-related themes.) As it is March and we are still on the subject of islands, which of you feels like a trip to the isle of Sainte-Marguerite near Cannes?