ScaleX™ Insider Podcast

In this episode, I had a fascinating conversation with Alex Osterwalder Founder & CEO Strategyzer, Visiting Professor IMD. We talked about a range of topics including;

• How to do innovation the right way
• How to avoid dying as an efficient business
• The biggest mistakes you make in entrepreneurship and innovation
• What is a value proposition and why you need one
• Why you need to define your own success
• Why you need artificial intelligence for business growth
• How to get the most out of artificial intelligence
• Why you need a breakthrough coach
• The one thing that leads to the death of innovation
• How you can create real value for your customers
• Why you need to develop recurring revenue streams for success
• Why you need to go fast to be innovative in business
• Why you need to stop asking customers for solutions
• Why you need to kill ideas that don't work fast
• Why businesses need AI technology to drive down costs
• Why you need to understand customer pains and gains

About Alex

Alexander Osterwalder is ranked No. 4 on the Thinkers50 global list of management thinkers. He's the genius behind the Business Model Canvas, co-created with Yves Pigneur, and tools now used by millions globally. As co-founder of Strategyzer, he aids giants like Colgate-Palmolive and MasterCard to boost their innovation strategies. Beyond his advisory role, he's penned bestsellers such as Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design. And for our younger listeners, he's even crafted a comic, Biz4Kids. Alexander.

Contact Alex Osterwalder:

Website: https://www.strategyzer.com/

Library: https://www.strategyzer.com/library

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

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

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In this episode, I had a fascinating conversation with Alex Osterwalder Founder & CEO Strategyzer, Visiting Professor IMD. We talked about a range of topics including;

• How to do innovation the right way
• How to avoid dying as an efficient business
• The biggest mistakes you make in entrepreneurship and innovation
• What is a value proposition and why you need one
• Why you need to define your own success
• Why you need artificial intelligence for business growth
• How to get the most out of artificial intelligence
• Why you need a breakthrough coach
• The one thing that leads to the death of innovation
• How you can create real value for your customers
• Why you need to develop recurring revenue streams for success
• Why you need to go fast to be innovative in business
• Why you need to stop asking customers for solutions
• Why you need to kill ideas that don't work fast
• Why businesses need AI technology to drive down costs
• Why you need to understand customer pains and gains

About Alex

Alexander Osterwalder is ranked No. 4 on the Thinkers50 global list of management thinkers. He's the genius behind the Business Model Canvas, co-created with Yves Pigneur, and tools now used by millions globally. As co-founder of Strategyzer, he aids giants like Colgate-Palmolive and MasterCard to boost their innovation strategies. Beyond his advisory role, he's penned bestsellers such as Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design. And for our younger listeners, he's even crafted a comic, Biz4Kids. Alexander.

Contact Alex Osterwalder:

Website: https://www.strategyzer.com/

Library: https://www.strategyzer.com/library

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

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

Contact Simple Scaling:

https://linktr.ee/simplescaling

In this episode, I had a fascinating conversation with Jeff Dewing, a revolutionary tech innovator, No.1 best-selling business author of the book 'Doing the Opposite', and founder of Cloudfm & Mindsett. We talked about a range of topics including, how to boost your cash flow in your business now and overcome failure in your life, how to get people to perform, how to unlocking moon shot thinking. We also talked about why you don't need to be afraid to think big, why you need a powerful purpose to life and business and why it is important to do the opposite sometimes for success, why you need to understand why you exist and reflect and why you need to say your vision out loud., and so much more....

About Jeff

Jeff Dewing is a revolutionary tech innovator, the No.1 best-selling business author of Doing the Opposite, and founder of Cloudfm & Mindsett. Their Tech has disrupted a £200 billion industry and they've been named Queens Award winner for Innovation (2019) and a global leader in IoT-enabled predictive maintenance by Gartner.

Jeff left school at 16, working his way up the ranks as an engineer to owning a successful multi-million-pound business (and football club) but he lost it all, having only £7.60 in his bank account. Despite this Jeff, managed to turn his life around, learnt to code and started a new business from his garden shed building it to £70M turnover. He's spearheading the technological revolution, now using game-changing tech to help businesses achieve net-zero and is projected to achieve £250M by 2026.

Contact Jeff

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

Website: https://www.jeffdewing.co.uk/

Business Website: https://www.cloudfmgroup.com/

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About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

Contact Simple Scaling:

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Mac Lackey - The most successful way to sell your business

In today's episode I chat with Mac Lackey, an American entrepreneur who has started, scaled, and sold six companies. In today's conversation we talk about, why you need to see your business through a buyers eyes, why you need to sell your business on value and never on financial multiples, how to create an irresistible story with selling your business, you need unshakable conviction to be successful, the story you need to tell to sell your business, why you need to surround yourself with smart people, the three things you need to know to sell your business, why you need an irresistibly great story to sell your business, why you need to have work life balance to be a success, why you need grip people to scale your business how to make it easy to sell your business, the things that make your business unattractive to buyers and more…

About Mac

Mac Lackey is an American entrepreneur who has started, scaled, and sold six companies (all seven or eight figure exits). Mac and his companies have been featured on CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Business North Carolina, USA Today and The New York Times.

Notable ventures include: KYCK (acquired by NBC Sports), Mountain Khakis (acquired by Remington) and InternetSoccer Network (acquired by division of News Corp/Sky). He additionally served as a member of the Board of Directors for Lending Tree (NASDAQ: TREE) for over five years and is currently an angel investor in over 50 companies.

He is the author of the eBook, 'Creating the Exit Opportunity'. Mac was a collegiate All-American and played professional soccer before starting his first Internet company in 1995.

Contact Mac

Website: www.maclackey.com

Website: www.exitdna.com

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

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/maclackey

Get the eBook, 'Creating the Exit Opportunity' - https://exitdna.com/book/

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

Contact Simple Scaling:

https://linktr.ee/simplescaling

In today's episode I chat with Stuart McLachlan, Chief Executive at Anthesis Group Ltd a global sustainability specialist operating in the UK, EMEA, N&S America and Asia. In our conversation we discuss , Why business leaders need to focus on family when scaling., how to become a more sustainable business, how to pick the best consultant for your business, how to translate values and businesses spread across the world, why leaders need to know this one thing to create a better future, what you need to know about leaders of the future, why you need to differentiate your business through sustainability, why you need to act now to become a more sustainable business, why you need to look at sustainability differently in business.

About Stuart

Today on the ScaleX Insider podcast I will be chatting with Stuart McLachlan the CEO of Anthesis Group, a global sustainability specialist founded in 2013. With over 900 employees across the UK, EMEA, N&S America, and Asia, Anthesis is a B-Corp committed to 'making sustainability happen', having acquired 16 firms and partnered with Palatine in 2021. Recognized in the FastTrack100 and FT1000, it's one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe.

Before Anthesis, Stuart shaped WSP Environment and Energy for 16 years, serving on the board of WSP Group, a FTSE 250 Company. A published author of 'The Adventure of Sustainable Performance', he's an influential speaker on sustainability and business success. Named the LDC 'One to Watch' in 2019 and a Top 32 ESG pioneer in 2021, we're excited to explore Stuart's insights today.

He has co-authored the book with Dean Sanders 'The Adventure of Sustainable Performance: Beyond ESG Compliance to Leadership in the New Era.'

Contact Stuart

Email: [email protected]

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The Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years written by Yvon Chouinard and Vincent Stanley

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

Contact Simple Scaling:

https://linktr.ee/simplescaling

In this episode of ScaleX™ Insider, Brendan McGurgan welcomes Raj Sisodia. They discuss the truth about healing for personal growth and effective leadership and distinguish between healthy growth and compulsive growth. Raj shares examples of healing companies that have achieved remarkable outcomes with minimal marketing spending, emphasizing the importance of stakeholder orientation and a clear sense of purpose. They also explore the possibility of being a conscious public company and the challenges it presents. Raj highlights the crisis of meaning and purpose that many people experience in midlife and the importance of personal growth and healing for effective leadership. He concludes by discussing the balance of masculine and feminine energies in organizations and the transformative experience he had in the Amazon rainforest. Raj emphasizes the importance of truth and reconciliation for societal healing and progress. He offers timeless takeaways, including self-healing, living by the principles of love, simplicity, and truth, and cultivating personal power and unconditional love.

Contact Raj

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

Website: https://rajsisodia.com/

Buy the book: The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

Contact Simple Scaling:

https://linktr.ee/simplescaling

In this episode of ScaleX™ Insider, Brendan McGurgan welcomes Raj Sisodia. They discuss the truth about healing for personal growth and effective leadership and distinguish between healthy growth and compulsive growth. Raj shares examples of healing companies that have achieved remarkable outcomes with minimal marketing spending, emphasizing the importance of stakeholder orientation and a clear sense of purpose. They also explore the possibility of being a conscious public company and the challenges it presents. Raj highlights the crisis of meaning and purpose that many people experience in midlife and the importance of personal growth and healing for effective leadership. He concludes by discussing the balance of masculine and feminine energies in organizations and the transformative experience he had in the Amazon rainforest. Raj emphasizes the importance of truth and reconciliation for societal healing and progress. He offers timeless takeaways, including self-healing, living by the principles of love, simplicity, and truth, and cultivating personal power and unconditional love.

Contact Raj

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

Website: https://rajsisodia.com/

Buy the book: The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Simple-Scaling-Proven-Principles-Business/dp/1544525893/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3MC76J0J1RHZJ&keywords=simple+scaling&qid=1692375132&sprefix=simple+scaling+%2Caps%2C82&sr=8-1

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In today's episode I chat with Vincent Stanley, Director of Philosophy at Patagonia, Inc. In today's conversation we talk about, why people are excited by fearless businesses with a purpose, you need to lead change and do it, why you need a product that is useful and sustainable and make your business influence climate change, why you need a great product that minimises environmental impact, two things businesses need to be sustainable and scale your business why you need to be authentic to succeed in business, why purpose and grit will help you save the planet, why Patagonia challenges the word sustainability and how nature helps us learn and more…

About Vincent Stanley

Today, I am chatting with Vincent Stanley, a pioneer who helped shape Patagonia from its very start. Co-founder of 'Our Footprint', in-house philosopher, and co-author alongside Yvon Chouinard of 'The Responsible Company' series, Vincent's influence has spanned five decades. He's not just a thought leader; he's a resident fellow at Yale's Centre for Business and Environment, embodying sustainable business practices. With a rich history at Patagonia, including executive roles and the development of impactful initiatives like the Footprint Chronicles, Common Threads Partnership, and Patagonia Books, Vincent currently serves as the company's Director of Patagonia Philosophy. Beyond business, he's a poet whose work has graced 'Best American Poetry,' adding a creative touch to his multifaceted journey.

Contact Vincent

Website: [email protected]

Patagonia website: www.patagonia.com

Buy the book: The Future of the Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 50 Years

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

Contact Simple Scaling:

https://linktr.ee/simplescaling

In today's episode I chat with Dan Sullivan, founder and president of The Strategic Coach Inc. In today's conversation we talk about, why you need purpose to achieve your ambitions, how to boost your success as an entrepreneur right now, the equation you need to know to become a successful entrepreneur, what you need to own your life to be successful, why you need to know your unique ability in business the one thing that all successful entrepreneurs do, the power of stem cell therapy why you need to surround yourself with the right people, why you need to lead yourself before you lead others, how to look to the future when scaling your business, how to free up time, the one thing you need to focus on to scale your business why you need to recognise your own unique ability in business, how entrepreneurs can get better results in less time, how to get more free time as an entrepreneur, why you need more freedom of time to increase money and more…

About Dan

Dan Sullivan is founder and president of The Strategic Coach Inc. A visionary, an innovator, and a gifted conceptual thinker, Dan has over 40 years' experience as a highly regarded speaker, consultant, strategic planner, and coach to entrepreneurial individuals and groups. Dan's strong belief in and commitment to the power of the entrepreneur is evident in all areas of Strategic Coach® and its successful coaching program, which works to help entrepreneurs reach their full potential in both their business and personal lives.

He is author of over 30 publications, including The Great Crossover, The 21st Century Agent, Creative Destruction, and How The Best Get Better®. He is co-author of The Laws of Lifetime Growth and The Advisor Century.

Dan is married to Babs Smith, his partner in business and in life. They jointly own and operate The Strategic Coach Inc., with offices in Toronto, Chicago, and the U.K. Dan and Babs reside in Toronto.

Contact Dan

Website: https://www.strategiccoach.com/

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

Contact Simple Scaling:

https://linktr.ee/simplescaling

In today's episode I chat with Dan Sullivan, founder and president of The Strategic Coach Inc. In today's conversation we talk about, why you need purpose to achieve your ambitions, how to boost your success as an entrepreneur right now, the equation you need to know to become a successful entrepreneur, what you need to own your life to be successful, why you need to know your unique ability in business the one thing that all successful entrepreneurs do, the power of stem cell therapy why you need to surround yourself with the right people, why you need to lead yourself before you lead others, how to look to the future when scaling your business, how to free up time, the one thing you need to focus on to scale your business why you need to recognise your own unique ability in business, how entrepreneurs can get better results in less time, how to get more free time as an entrepreneur, why you need more freedom of time to increase money and more…

About Dan

Dan Sullivan is founder and president of The Strategic Coach Inc. A visionary, an innovator, and a gifted conceptual thinker, Dan has over 40 years' experience as a highly regarded speaker, consultant, strategic planner, and coach to entrepreneurial individuals and groups. Dan's strong belief in and commitment to the power of the entrepreneur is evident in all areas of Strategic Coach® and its successful coaching program, which works to help entrepreneurs reach their full potential in both their business and personal lives.

He is author of over 30 publications, including The Great Crossover, The 21st Century Agent, Creative Destruction, and How The Best Get Better®. He is co-author of The Laws of Lifetime Growth and The Advisor Century.

Dan is married to Babs Smith, his partner in business and in life. They jointly own and operate The Strategic Coach Inc., with offices in Toronto, Chicago, and the U.K. Dan and Babs reside in Toronto.

Contact Dan

Website: https://www.strategiccoach.com/

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

Contact Simple Scaling:

https://linktr.ee/simplescaling