You can't have it all. Life involves sacrifice. But William McColgan is an example of how you can come close to having it all, as long as you correctly define what success looks like and make the right sacrifices. So when his five-year-old son was poised to undertake "shooter drills" on entering elementary school in New Hampshire, he sacrificed a consultancy career with Fortune 100 companies to return to his native Northern Ireland and make sausage rolls in Strabane. Granted, he makes quite a lot of them - around half a million a day - which adds up to around £30 million in annual turnover. But the challenges of being the best are immense and un-ceasing. William's corporate experience is now central to a new culture at the third-generation family firm which has made them so dominant in the Irish market that they need a big move into Great Britain to continue the upwards growth trajectory. His biggest challenge is attracting and nurturing world class talent in this remote corner of Northern Ireland, but he's loving it and he's winning by investing in technology, training and specialist education programmes. And his son, now ten, well he's happy to call Strabane home.
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