Cyriel Kortleven is a man who practises what he preaches – a veteran in the world of creativity and innovation, he has developed his impressive skills as a teacher and inspirational speaker by dreaming big and starting with tiny steps.

In 2004, Cyriel started his own company and his mission in life became clear: to boost the creative & entrepreneurial mindset of professionals who are faced with change….which is pretty much everyone in business today.

Cyriel stimulates people to break their fixed-thinking patterns and inspires them to unleash their full potential. For more than 20 years, he has been inspiring organisations like IKEA, NASA and Unilever to approach Change with courage, confidence and enthusiasm. His pragmatic advice has earned him the nickname The Simplifier and he believes that in an increasingly complex world, we need new simple perspectives to enable us to navigate uncertainty and to turn problems into opportunities.

Cyriel has authored a number of books including The Change Mindset, which was launched last week, Yes and…Your Mental Agility, Yes and…Your Business, Yes and…Your Customer Service, Timespiration: a different look at time, less is More.

In today's conversation we will explore:

• The importance of Yes And… instead of Yes But…
• Four steps to changing your state aligned with your purpose and vision
• The importance of reconnecting with your vision at an emotional level
• Creating space to be creative
• The critical importance of nano steps and the three minute rule

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"You are not your emotions, you are not your fear."

Contact Cyriel

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyrielkortleven/

Website: https://www.cyrielkortleven.com/

The Idea Killers: https://www.cyrielkortleven.com/cmt-yes-and

Buy Cyriel's Book: The Change Mindset

Link to book: https://rxe.me/9082935007

Simple Scaling Book

Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business

About the Host

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible. Over seventeen years, twelve as CEO of CDE Group, he helped the company achieve 25x revenue growth and become an industry leader. During his time as CEO the company delivered almost £500 million ($750 million) cumulative revenue and £50 million ($75 million) cumulative profit from more than 90 countries. The company also generated considerable cash reserves and became a revered leader in its industry.

Driven by his own desire to inspire, connect and enable ambitious leaders of SMEs to scale with purpose, he co-founded Simple Scaling with Claire Colvin with whom he co-authored Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x your business.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/

https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team

Contact Simple Scaling:

www.simplescaling.com

James Kerr is a best-selling author and an expert in leadership, teamwork, and high performance. He is the author of 'Legacy', the international bestseller, which analyses the unique culture of the world's most successful sporting team, the All Blacks. The book has been described as 'unputdownable' by Bloomberg and The Daily Telegraph called it the 'modern version of Vince Lombardi's guides to coaching' and says, 'for those searching for genuine keys to team culture, it is manna from heaven.'

In his work, James addresses the transferable principles that drive exceptional outperformance. Using examples from his work with sport, the military and business, he argues that winning teams employ the same basic ideas; a relentless focus on excellence, a commitment to a collective cause, individual autonomy, trust initiative and accountability, candid communication, underpinned by a culture in which 'leaders create leaders'.

As an advisory, he helps organisations 'lift their game': galvanising and inspiring their teams through standards and expectations, identity, belief and belonging, mindset and mental skills. As well as small, elite teams, Kerr addresses the specific challenges faced by larger, more diverse organisations. He has advised US and UK Special Forces, Formula 1 teams, America's Cup crews, Premier League football managers, Olympic Performance Directors – as well as corporations ranging from Google to PayPal, McKinsey to Dyson, HSBC to Roche, Red Bull to Unilever, Shell to Boeing. His next book, Spearhead, explores 'the principles of war for the business of leadership', providing a fresh framework for leaders looking to turn culture into a 'force multiplier' for competitive advantage.

He is the co-founder of Fable Partners, the Leadership and Change Consultancy.

In today's conversation we will explore:

• The importance of story to inspire engagement
• Three aspects of culture
• The importance of celebrating failure
• Knowing what you stand for
• The importance of leading from within
• Listen out for the WIN acronym and the Blue Head concept for performing effectively under pressure.

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"The stories we tell ourselves are the stories that others end up telling about us."

Contact James

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-kerr-09a70bb/?originalSubdomain=uk

Buy James' Book – Legacy

https://mybook.to/Legacy-James-Kerr

Look out for James' other upcoming books including Spearhead, About Everest and a follow up to Legacy.

Simple Scaling Book

Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business

About the Host

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible. Over seventeen years, twelve as CEO of CDE Group, he helped the company achieve 25x revenue growth and become an industry leader. During his time as CEO the company delivered almost £500 million ($750 million) cumulative revenue and £50 million ($75 million) cumulative profit from more than 90 countries. The company also generated considerable cash reserves and became a revered leader in its industry.

Driven by his own desire to inspire, connect and enable ambitious leaders of SMEs to scale with purpose, he co-founded Simple Scaling with Claire Colvin with whom he co-authored Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x your business. Brendan also acts as a Non-Executive Director to CDE Asia (part of CDE Group). In 2016, he was awarded the Institute of Directors, UK Young Director of the Year and Overall, Director of the Year. Brendan is also a regular keynote speaker, the host of the popular ScaleX™ Insider Podcast and is also a Wim Hof Instructor.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/

https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team

Contact Simple Scaling:

www.simplescaling.com

Jodie Cook – The four-phase framework to scaling and exiting your business and the importance of systemisation.

Jodie is an entrepreneur, athlete, and writer.

In 2011, Jodie founded a digital agency called JC Social Media which was acquired in 2021. It was this foray into the business world which ignited Jodie's fascination with the influences that create entrepreneurs. Alongside running a business, she authors books and articles about entrepreneurship and competes in powerlifting.

Jodie contributes articles to Forbes and Thought Catalog and authored a book called Stop Acting Like You're Going To Live Forever, on the topics of happiness, entrepreneurship, and lifestyle design. She co-wrote a series of children's storybooks, Clever Tykes, which develop positive, resourceful, and creative behaviour in 6–9-year-olds which are now read in every primary school in the United Kingdom.

Jodie was included in Forbes' 30 under 30 social entrepreneurs in Europe 2017 and gave a TEDx talk with the title 'creating useful people'. She loves travel, lifestyle design and helping people access the freedom that modern entrepreneurship should bring.

Her latest book 'Ten Year Career' Reimagine Business, Design Your Life, Fast Track Your Freedom focuses on how to define success your way, how to achieve far more in a shorter space of time and how to run your business without it running you.

In today's conversation we will explore:

• The pitfalls of the comfort zone
• The four-phase framework to scaling and exiting your business
• The importance of systemising your business
• How we should think of our business as a game and how businesses can move levels within that game beyond where 96% of business owners never pass
• Practices which support a scaling mindset
• Listen out for the one thing for you to develop that becomes a multiplier to everything else you do.

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"I think if selling is on your agenda in anyway, or if exiting your business in some way is something that you want to do in the future, you have to systemise otherwise you won't be able to sell it or if you do sell it, you have to do an earn out where you have to go with the company and you have to babysit it while the new buyer makes sure that you're doing your job. No entrepreneur wants that. So, the systemising phase has to have the endgame in mind. And it's always the vision you have to have in mind while you're doing it, because it will get hard, it will feel like a lot of effort, but it is worth it, I promise.

Contact Jodie

Website: https://www.jodiecook.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cookjodie/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jodie.cook_/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cookiewhirls

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JodieCookTV

Subscribe to Jodie's Blog

https://world.hey.com/jodie

Take Jodie's Quiz to find out where you are in your Ten Year Career

https://quiz.tenyearcareer.com/

Buy Jodie's Book

Ten Year Career: Reimagine Business, Design Your Life, Fast Track Your Freedom

https://mybook.to/ten-year-career

Simple Scaling Book

Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business

About the Host

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible. Over seventeen years, twelve as CEO of CDE Group, he helped the company achieve 25x revenue growth and become an industry leader. During his time as CEO the company delivered almost £500 million ($750 million) cumulative revenue and £50 million ($75 million) cumulative profit from more than 90 countries. The company also generated considerable cash reserves and became a revered leader in its industry.

Driven by his own desire to inspire, connect and enable ambitious leaders of SMEs to scale with purpose, he co-founded Simple Scaling with Claire Colvin with whom he co-authored Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x your business. Brendan also acts as a Non-Executive Director to CDE Asia (part of CDE Group). In 2016, he was awarded the Institute of Directors, UK Young Director of the Year and Overall, Director of the Year. Brendan is also a regular keynote speaker, the host of the popular ScaleX™ Insider Podcast and is also a Wim Hof Instructor.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/

https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team

Contact Simple Scaling:

www.simplescaling.com

Brian Keane, known as Brian Keane Fitness online is a Reps qualified Level 3 Personal Trainer, certified Strength and Conditioning Coach and Sports Nutritionist.

Over the past seven years, he has gone from working full time as primary school teacher to one of Ireland's leading thought leaders on all thing's health, fitness, and nutrition.

He has had mainstream features everywhere from the UK and Irish Daily Mail, Star and Mirror to Men's and Women's Health Magazine.

On top of his ever-growing social media platforms which have a combined total of well over a quarter of a million followers, he also hosts one of Ireland and the UK's top health podcast which is regularly featured #1 on the iTunes Health Charts.

Brian's online fitness programs have over a thousand graduates every single year. In his programs, he helps people reach their weight loss, fitness, or body composition goal by giving them sustainable fitness programs alongside changing their entire mindset when it comes to food. Brian isn't a calorie in, calorie out nutritional coach, nor is he a low carb, vegan or paleo advocate. His philosophy is all about finding a nutritional plan that works for you as an individual and showing that your mindset around nutrition is more important than the actual diet plan you are on.

Brian has authored four books, three of which were Amazon best-sellers including, The Fitness Mindset, Rewire your Mindset, The Keane Edge and Leaner, Stronger, Faster.

Over the past seven years, Brian has become one of the most recognised faces in the Irish health and fitness industry. He has spoken at major wellness events such as Wellfest and was a Keynote speaker at Google HQ in Dublin for their 2018 wellness event.

In today's conversation we will explore:

• The Importance of knowing where you want to go but ensuring that it aligns with your values.
• Knowing when you should quit
• How fear shows up and some great questions we should ask ourselves to overcome it
• The importance of not trading your time for money but using leverage to scale
• Getting the balance right using Brian's four quadrants for a full life
• Great advice to maintain a healthy life where Brian shares his morning and evening routines
• Legacy and having a conversation with you 98-year old self

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"Don't forget the flowers at your feet when you are reaching for the moon."

Contact Brian

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brian_keane_fitness/?hl=en

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/briankeanefitness

Twitter: https://twitter.com/briank019

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@briankeanefitness

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianKeaneFitness

Check out Brian Keane's Podcast

BFK Podcast available on all major podcast platforms

Buy Brian's Book

Rewire Your Mindset. Available on Amazon

Simple Scaling Book

Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business

About the Host

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible. Over seventeen years, twelve as CEO of CDE Group, he helped the company achieve 25x revenue growth and become an industry leader. During his time as CEO the company delivered almost £500 million ($750 million) cumulative revenue and £50 million ($75 million) cumulative profit from more than 90 countries. The company also generated considerable cash reserves and became a revered leader in its industry.

Driven by his own desire to inspire, connect and enable ambitious leaders of SMEs to scale with purpose, he co-founded Simple Scaling with Claire Colvin with whom he co-authored Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x your business. Brendan also acts as a Non-Executive Director to CDE Asia (part of CDE Group). In 2016, he was awarded the Institute of Directors, UK Young Director of the Year and Overall, Director of the Year. Brendan is also a regular keynote speaker, the host of the popular ScaleX™ Insider Podcast and is also a Wim Hof Instructor.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/

https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team

Contact Simple Scaling:

www.simplescaling.com

Chris Voss is widely known for being a kidnapping and hostage negotiator, spending 24 years at the forefront of prominent FBI cases. As a member of the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force, Chris played a pivotal role in 150 hostage negotiations where he persuaded terrorists, bank robbers, and kidnappers to see things his way. Some of Chris' most prominent cases include monitoring the landmark bomb plot in New York City and investigating into the World Trade Centre bombing in 1993.

Other prominent cases include negotiations to free Jill Carroll in Iraq and Steve Centanni in the Gaza Strip. His work has taken him all over the globe, having also performed hostage negotiation in places such as Haiti, Columbia, and the Philippines. During his time in service, Chris received top-tier training from the FBI and was also educated by Scotland Yard and Harvard Law School.

Upon his retirement from the FBI back in 2007, Chris began dedicating his time as a lecturer at the USC Marshall School of Business and as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business.

Collating his expertise of negotiation, Chris has authored the book Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It. He has also been sought to speak regularly on a variety of television channels including the likes of Fox News, CNN, and CNBC. Today, Chris runs a master class titled The Art of Negotiation and uses his skills of negotiation to help teach business negotiation to his budding students.

Chris Founded the Black Swan Group, channelling his expertise into his business helping others to solve business communication problems and brings to bear his years of experience in international crisis and negotiation.

Now he's teaching you his field-tested strategies to help you in everyday negotiations, whether you're aiming to improve your salary, the service you receive, or your relationships. Get stronger communication skills, game-changing insights into human nature, and more of what you want out of life.

In today's conversation we will explore:

• Practising tactical empathy to cultivate relationships
• The importance of your mental hygiene to develop happier and more profitable negotiations.
• The four steps of effective negotiation
• How to successfully negotiate your target price

Quote

"I'm genuinely curious about what you have to say and where you coming from. I'm going to have a positive state of mind. It's impossible to be angry and curious simultaneously. If you are curious, you are smarter, you see patterns more quickly, you find out where the other side is coming from. Now, when you are curious about the person you're talking to, they love it. They want to talk to you. You are developing rapport that they feel very engaged with. They then open up to you. You do two things at the same time. You develop a rapport where you are gathering information instead of one or the other which then become an accelerator in your business relationship."

Contact Chris

Website: https://www.blackswanltd.com/home

Subscribe to the blog: https://blog.blackswanltd.com/the-edge

Buy Chris's Book

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It: https://amzn.to/3KMsNnN

Simple Scaling Book

Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business

About the Host

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible. Over seventeen years, twelve as CEO of CDE Group, he helped the company achieve 25x revenue growth and become an industry leader. During his time as CEO the company delivered almost £500 million ($750 million) cumulative revenue and £50 million ($75 million) cumulative profit from more than 90 countries. The company also generated considerable cash reserves and became a revered leader in its industry.

Driven by his own desire to inspire, connect and enable ambitious leaders of SMEs to scale with purpose, he co-founded Simple Scaling with Claire Colvin with whom he co-authored Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x your business. Brendan also acts as a Non-Executive Director to CDE Asia (part of CDE Group). In 2016, he was awarded the Institute of Directors, UK Young Director of the Year and Overall, Director of the Year. Brendan is also a regular keynote speaker, the host of the popular ScaleX™ Insider Podcast and is also a Wim Hof Instructor.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/

https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team

Contact Simple Scaling:

www.simplescaling.com

Larry Yatch, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a ten-year veteran serving as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy SEALs, has led and served in extreme environments around the globe. He is a father to two young boys, speaker, coach, and a successful business owner. As an entrepreneur in leadership development, team performance and tactical planning, he applies lessons from these experiences to transform decision-making, reinvigorate company cultures, and improve team performance. His book released this year 'How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL's Complete System for Coordinating Teams' brings together his experiences and knowledge that he has gained across the Navy SEALs and the world of business.

Larry planned and led his SEAL platoons in the assault on the world's largest oil platform in the largest Special Operations mission in U.S. history during the opening night of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He developed a radical new system for attacking armored, enemy controlled ships during operations in the Northern Arabian Gulf. He also planned, built, and directed the creation of a new 300-person SEAL command designed for sensitive missions critical to the Navy's efforts in the War on Terror. Multiple injuries led Larry to medically retire from the SEALs in 2008.

In today's conversation we will explore:

• How to execute with extreme levels of accountability and responsibility and most importantly how to ensure that things get done without you
• The four pillars of responsibility
• The importance of coordinating action effectively with others
• The six pillars of performance
• The 10 principles of the ScaleX™ Framework
• How to inspire your team through the Waterfall of Obligation
• How to become a high performing business leader with self-regulation

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"If you're surrounded by people that don't hold responsibility, you're the cause of that. You are the one that is enabling these individuals. If I'm handing responsibility to you, it's on me to make sure that you have the power in the form of knowledge, skills, responsibility, authority, and resources to meet the standard of performance that you understand and hold in order to fulfil the purpose and avoid the consequence. The fourth piece is getting a commitment."

Contact Larry

https://www.howleadershipactuallyworks.com/

https://www.sealteamleaders.com/

Buy Larry's Book – How Leadership Actually Works

https://www.howleadershipactuallyworks.com/home

Simple Scaling Book

Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business

About the Host

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible. Over seventeen years, twelve as CEO of CDE Group, he helped the company achieve 25x revenue growth and become an industry leader. During his time as CEO the company delivered almost £500 million ($750 million) cumulative revenue and £50 million ($75 million) cumulative profit from more than 90 countries. The company also generated considerable cash reserves and became a revered leader in its industry.

Driven by his own desire to inspire, connect and enable ambitious leaders of SMEs to scale with purpose, he co-founded Simple Scaling with Claire Colvin with whom he co-authored Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x your business. Brendan also acts as a Non-Executive Director to CDE Asia (part of CDE Group). In 2016, he was awarded the Institute of Directors, UK Young Director of the Year and Overall, Director of the Year. Brendan is also a regular keynote speaker, the host of the popular ScaleX™ Insider Podcast and is also a Wim Hof Instructor.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/

https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team

Contact Simple Scaling:

www.simplescaling.com

Today, I am revisiting my conversation with Cameron Herold. Known by Many Leaders as "The Business Growth Guru" Cameron Herold is a top business consultant, best-selling author, and speaker. He's the mastermind behind hundreds of companies' exponential growth and he's touched thousands of businesses indirectly through his work.

At age 21, he had 14 employees. By 35, he'd helped build his first two $100 million companies. By the age of 42, Cameron had engineered 1-800-GOT-JUNK?'s spectacular growth from $2 Million to $106 Million in revenue in just six years.

His companies landed over 5,200 media placements in those same six years, including coverage on Oprah.

Not simply a theory guy, Cameron teaches what he knows from experience and is passionate about sharing his expertise with today's most dynamic business leaders.

He is a best-selling author and has published five books including The Miracle Morning, Double Double, Meetings Suck, Free PR, and Vivid Vision.

According to Cameron, vision statements don't work and for those business leaders listening today that think they just need to update or review their vision statement, Cameron Herold would recommend that you flush it down the toilet and start again.

Key points we talk about include:

• How to use the vivid vision concept to help make your dreams happen
• The importance of creating a vision to inspire people to get involved
• Why you should focus on the 'Who' and not the 'How' when it comes to executing
• What characterises Elon Musk's brilliance
• How can use vision to great effect

Key Takeaway

"Entrepreneurs need to tell themselves that their role is to share the vision, infuse people with energy and help remove obstacles for people."

Contact Cameron

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronherold/?originalSubdomain=ca

Website: https://cameronherold.com/

Your Vision Statement Sucks | Cameron Herold | TEDxVancouver - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCgK5M3hY8Y

Invest in Your Leaders Course - https://investinyourleaders.com/

Buy the book:

Vivid Vision: A Remarkable Tool for Aligning Your Business Around a Shared Vision of the Future

Amazon.co.uk: https://amzn.to/3D1tupp

Amazon.com: https://amzn.to/3L2HAcV

Simple Scaling Book

Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business

About the Host

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible. Over seventeen years, twelve as CEO of CDE Group, he helped the company achieve 25x revenue growth and become an industry leader. During his time as CEO the company delivered almost £500 million ($750 million) cumulative revenue and £50 million ($75 million) cumulative profit from more than 90 countries. The company also generated considerable cash reserves and became a revered leader in its industry.

Driven by his own desire to inspire, connect and enable ambitious leaders of SMEs to scale with purpose, he co-founded Simple Scaling with Claire Colvin with whom he co-authored Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x your business. Brendan also acts as a Non-Executive Director to CDE Asia (part of CDE Group). In 2016, he was awarded the Institute of Directors, UK Young Director of the Year and Overall, Director of the Year. Brendan is also a regular keynote speaker, the host of the popular ScaleX™ Insider Podcast and is also a Wim Hof Instructor.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/

https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team

Contact Simple Scaling:

www.simplescaling.com

In today's episode I'm revisiting the show with Tom Kolditz who shared some fantastic insights on leadership. Tom is the founding Director of the Ann and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University. The Doerr Institute was recognised in 2019 as the top university leader development program by the Association of Leadership Educators and named the 4th Leader Development Program in the world by Global Gurus, London.

He has been named as a leadership Thought Leader by the Leader to Leader Institute and as a Top Leader Development Professional by Leadership Excellence. In 2020, he has continued to be ranked in the global top 25 coaches and in 2021, the #6 Start-up expert worldwide.

He developed the concept of in extremis leadership—an original crisis leadership model—while serving in the oil fields and palace cities in Iraq. His book on that topic, In Extremis Leadership: Leading as if Your Life Depended On It, is used in at least 8 service academies in the US, China, Japan, and Israel. His second book, Leadership Reckoning: Can Higher Education Develop the Leaders We Need, is driving a leader development reform movement in higher education in collaboration with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

In today's episode, Tom talks about:

• How leadership is about giving people what they need
• How to build trust and respect as a leader and make your team want to follow you
• The importance of emotional intelligence in leadership
• The mistakes many leaders make when attempting to win the trust of those they serve.
• How to identify leaders in your organisation
• The importance of getting to know your people
• Why every leader needs feedback
• How actions speak much louder than words.
• The role that education today has claimed in developing leaders for the future.

Key Takeaway

"Leadership is about giving people what they need. It's not about the quality of an individual or a style. People don't care about style; they just have needs. You need to see the world through the eyes of your people to influence and motivate them and give them direction and purpose".

Contact Tom

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-kolditz-7116a3/

Website: https://tomkolditz.com/

Buy Tom's Book

In Extremis Leadership: Leading As If Your Life Depended On It https://mybook.to/In-Extremis

Simple Scaling Book

Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business

About the Host

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible. Over seventeen years, twelve as CEO of CDE Group, he helped the company achieve 25x revenue growth and become an industry leader. During his time as CEO the company delivered almost £500 million ($750 million) cumulative revenue and £50 million ($75 million) cumulative profit from more than 90 countries. The company also generated considerable cash reserves and became a revered leader in its industry.

Driven by his own desire to inspire, connect and enable ambitious leaders of SMEs to scale with purpose, he co-founded Simple Scaling with Claire Colvin with whom he co-authored Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x your business. Brendan also acts as a Non-Executive Director to CDE Asia (part of CDE Group). In 2016, he was awarded the Institute of Directors, UK Young Director of the Year and Overall, Director of the Year. Brendan is also a regular keynote speaker, the host of the popular ScaleX™ Insider Podcast and is also a Wim Hof Instructor.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/

https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team

Contact Simple Scaling:

www.simplescaling.com

In today's episode I'm delighted to re-introduce Claire Colvin. Claire has worked as a partner to business leaders and entrepreneurs of high growth businesses helping them to scale through their people. As the former Talent Director on the Board of a rapidly growing global organisation, Claire built the optimum people centred structures and systems to enable the company to significantly scale across 6 continents. Prior to that, she spent almost 15 years with an award-winning, technology SME, which operated in a highly competitive environment.

Finding great talent is the #1 reason why businesses are unable to scale. In 2019, Claire became my business partner and we set out on a journey of discovery to extensively research exemplars of scaling to identify the key attributes that made them successful.

In today's episode, Brendan and Claire talk about:

• The importance of a vision and purpose
• The difference between growing and scaling
• Removing self-limiting beliefs and the importance of psyche when scaling a business
• How to turn your fear into energy and excitement
• How recruitment has changed and how to maximise your social capital to ensure that you attract the best talent
• The importance of culture and the right Employee Value Proposition (EVP)

Contact Claire

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-colvin-586a162b/

Link to Scaling Your Business Templates

https://simplescaling.com/scalex-templates

Simple Scaling Book

Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business

About the Host

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible. Over seventeen years, twelve as CEO of CDE Group, he helped the company achieve 25x revenue growth and become an industry leader. During his time as CEO the company delivered almost £500 million ($750 million) cumulative revenue and £50 million ($75 million) cumulative profit from more than 90 countries. The company also generated considerable cash reserves and became a revered leader in its industry.

Driven by his own desire to inspire, connect and enable ambitious leaders of SMEs to scale with purpose, he co-founded Simple Scaling with Claire Colvin with whom he co-authored Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x your business. Brendan also acts as a Non-Executive Director to CDE Asia (part of CDE Group). In 2016, he was awarded the Institute of Directors, UK Young Director of the Year and Overall, Director of the Year. Brendan is also a regular keynote speaker, the host of the popular ScaleX™ Insider Podcast and is also a Wim Hof Instructor.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/

https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team

Joining me today is Sharon Lechter. She is an entrepreneur, international speaker, best-selling author, mentor, philanthropist, licensed CPA for 35 years and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. Sharon is the premier expert for financial literacy and entrepreneurial success.

Sharon co-authored the international bestseller Rich Dad Poor Dad and has released 14 other books in the Rich Dad series. Over 10 years as the co-founder and CEO, she built the empire into the world's leading personal finance brand.

In 2008, she was asked by the Napoleon Hill Foundation to help re-energize the powerful teachings of Napoleon Hill. Sharon has released four best-selling books in cooperation with the Foundation, including Think and Grow Rich-Three Feet from Gold, Outwitting the Devil, Success and Something Greater, and her latest project, Think and Grow Rich for Women, released in June of 2014. She is also featured in the 2017 movie Think and Grow Rich: The Legacy and has released the book Save Wisely, Spend Happily in cooperation with the American Institute of CPAs.

Sharon is a highly sought-after mentor and has worked with major brands like Disney and Time Warner and served two U.S. Presidents as an advisor on the topic of financial literacy. Everything about Sharon's career centers around impacting others to improve their financial IQ, access untapped potential personally and in business, and create their own legacy.

Everything changed in 2012 however when Sharon's son unexpectedly died. All of Sharon's successes seemed to fade into the background. She kept working, but on autopilot. She stopped playing at the level she always had and just started coasting.

Until now.

Now, Sharon is back and playing big again, and she wants you to as well with the Play Big Movement. It's time to shed the limitations that have stopped you in the past. It's time to play big, master your money and time and create maximum impact.

In today's conversation we will explore:

• Managing your fears and managing your energy,
• The 6ps to scaling and exiting profitably
• The importance of investing time as opposed to spending time
• Choose your front row wisely
• Sharon's personal success equation

Quote

"You can make money, lose money and make it back. But when your time is gone it's gone. As I sit before you right now, I'm 68 years old so my time is even more precious. We have to guard our time so that we are focused on our mission, because if people keep draining your time you're not moving forward. You really need to be very stingy about your personal time and make sure that you have the systems that allow you to scale but also allow you to concentrate on the areas that will give you the greatest growth."

Contact Sharon

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonlechter/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorSharonLechter

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sharonlechter/

Website: https://sharonlechter.com/ - Find out more about Sharon's Programmes

Resources

https://atm.sharonlechter.com/ - Access Sharon's ATM which gives you daily deposits of Abundance, Tips & Mentoring

https://success.sharonlechter.com/personal-success-equation - Discover your personalized formula for income generation and lasting wealth

https://simplescaling-25437777.hubspotpagebuilder.eu/scalex-expander - Use this tool to help you identify 'who' your strategic partners are and how to start connecting with them.

Buy Sharon's Books

Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - https://mybook.to/rich-dad-poor-dad

Think and Grow Rich-Three Feet from Gold

Outwitting the Devil - https://mybook.to/Outwitting-The-devil

Think and Grow Rich for Women - https://mybook.to/Grow-Rich-For-Women

Simple Scaling Book

Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business

About the Host

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible. Over seventeen years, twelve as CEO of CDE Group, he helped the company achieve 25x revenue growth and become an industry leader. During his time as CEO the company delivered almost £500 million ($750 million) cumulative revenue and £50 million ($75 million) cumulative profit from more than 90 countries. The company also generated considerable cash reserves and became a revered leader in its industry.

Driven by his own desire to inspire, connect and enable ambitious leaders of SMEs to scale with purpose, he co-founded Simple Scaling with Claire Colvin with whom he co-authored Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x your business. Brendan also acts as a Non-Executive Director to CDE Asia (part of CDE Group). In 2016, he was awarded the Institute of Directors, UK Young Director of the Year and Overall, Director of the Year. Brendan is also a regular keynote speaker, the host of the popular ScaleX™ Insider Podcast and is also a Wim Hof Instructor.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/

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