Adapt and overcome was probably the theme of this discussion on ScaleUp Radio. Today I interviewed Antony Thompson, who is the co founder of Loopin.

They have a great mission, which is to provide a million managers by 2030, the ability to reduce burnout and attrition in their teams with the help of AI. 

So, no surprise Loopin itself is a tool based on AI that helps managers to manage all sorts of aspects of resilience, burnout, but essentially around high performance teams. 

This is a fascinating discussion. Both Anthony and his co-founder, Ben are ex Marines although they didn't actually serve together.  There's lots of reference to how they have taken some of those values of really looking after each other in the Marines – for example look after the person to the right and to the left of you and keeping each other accountable, but also looking after yourself. You'll hear how they've taken some this into Loopin around managing those high performance teams. 

Lots of great parts of the story including how they came within 9 days of running out of money and were down to their last £240 when investment money came in. 

So quite a roller coaster of a journey, which I think take us back to that adapt and overcome and that resilience. 

Plenty of discussion around people so you might like to take our checklist on levelling up your team. It may give you some ideas, some of the things that Antony talked about and some other things as well. You can check how you're doing against what we consider to be great aspects of building your team habits.

 

Antony can be found here:

linkedin.com/in/ant-thompson-loopin

https://www.letsloopin.com/

[email protected]

 

 

Resources

The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team by Patrick Lencioni - https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-five-dysfunctions-of-a-team/patrick-m-lencioni/9781118016701

The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy - https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-compound-effect/darren-hardy-llc/9781399805780

The One Thing by Gary Keller - https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-one-thing/gary-keller/jay-papasan/9781848549258

Meddic by Andy Whyte - https://www.waterstones.com/book/meddicc/andy-whyte/dick-dunkel/9781838239701

 

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