Category: Business
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Great Strategy without Great People is nothing
Ideas + Capital + Talent = enduring great business. Ideas are everywhere, nothing special about an idea. Capital is plentiful for those who have proven themselves. Today there is so much capital sloshing around looking for moderate returns. The Scarce Resource… Talent, true talent… is rare. Talent isn’t potential. Talent is systematic repeated high performance […]
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How to Build an Entrepreneurial Dream Team
As an entrepreneur, a CEO or business leader, one of your most important roles is to build a leadership team. Who do you need in the team for long term success? Who is on your Leadership Team? The video below clarifies the 8 profiles that are necessary for a business to start, scale up and […]
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Improving your Strengths or Improving your Weaknesses
You cannot win the marathon by sprinting. The winner of the 100m in the Olympics might also win the 200m, but will never be competitive in the 10K… or marathon …or rowing, or judo… Gold medal athletes focus on their strengths and work to amplify their strengths. Usain Bolt doesn’t spend training time trying to […]
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IESE Instagram Live: How Writing Helps your Career
This is the recording of a session I did yesterday with IESE Business School on the topic of writing as a tool to help your career. In this context, writing is not so much about writing for magazines or in a blog… but writing to set goals, to stay focussed, to identify what is important, […]
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What evidence would change your mind?
I was listening to Shane Parrish interview Adam Grant on his knowledge project podcast last week. Adam was speaking of the loss of rationality in many public domains. Politics, gender, science, global warming, race relations… are all domains where it has become dangerous to ask questions or engage with open curiosity. As Adam was speaking […]
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The 3 Approaches to Work
I recently heard Sadhguru share 3 ways that people approach life and work: Idiot – these people don’t enjoy what they do each day Smart – these people have created a life where they do enjoy the activity and the people that they spend time with each day Genius – these people have learnt to […]
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Lessons from Reid Hoffman, EO Conversation on Zoom
I was on a zoom call today with Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn. Here’s my lessons from the call… How do we learn Entrepreneurship? The best way of learning entrepreneurship: play boardgames… Settlers of Catan is good – there is trading, there is ambiguity, there are multiple strategies. Chess is good but no ambiguity… we […]
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Stand in the Traffic
The title of this blog comes from a session in a course that Professor Paris de l’Etraz teaches about Life. I met Paris at a dinner in Madrid 4 years ago hosted by another inspiring teacher. Stand in the Traffic: I love the simplicity of this life strategy. Whatever you want in life, there are […]
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5 Ways Successful People Increase their Impact
How do those who are successful go on and make a truly lasting impact? Focus (no athlete wins 100m and marathon) Time horizon (Jeff bezos handstand) Habits (little habits every day > big decisions once a decade) Love the Process/Plateau (bamboo – it doesn’t always look like progress) Connected Relationships (communications, trust) Check out the […]
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How to Double your Sales to your Best Clients?
The title sounds a bit “salesy”… but that is what the video is about. My friend and colleague at Vistage, Harry Marsland, shared with me one of his secrets to build a successful marketing agency in the UK. He has 5 questions that he would ask to his favourite clients each year: Harry’s 5 Sales […]