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Dr. Margaret Heffernan produced programmes for the BBC for 13 years. She then moved to the US where she spearheaded multimedia productions for Intuit, The Learning Company and Standard & Poors. She was Chief Executive of InfoMation Corporation, ZineZone Corporation and then iCast Corporation, was named one of the "Top 25" by Streaming Media magazine and one of the "Top 100 Media Executives" by The Hollywood Reporter.
The author of six books, Margaret's third book, Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril was named one of the most important business books of the decade by the Financial Times. In 2015, she was awarded the Transmission Prize for A Bigger Prize: Why Competition isn't Everything and How We Do Better, described as "meticulously researched... engagingly written... universally relevant and hard to fault." Her TED talks have been seen by over twelve million people and in 2015 TED published Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes. Her most recent book, Uncharted: How to map the future was published in 2020.
She is a Professor of Practice at the University of Bath, Lead Faculty for the Forward Institute's Responsible Leadership Programme and, through Merryck & Co., mentors CEOs and senior executives of major global organizations. She holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bath and continues to write for the Financial Times and the Huffington Post.
In today's conversation we will explore:
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"Having a coach means you schedule thinking time. Thinking is pretty much what you are paid to do but it generally seems to be the one thing nobody ever has time for. Coaching simply brings a discipline to your thinking that I think is really important. It's very difficult to think alone and most people can't do it for more than a few minutes. Therefore, thinking with a coach helps solve some challenges and provides prompts which creates a deeper, richer experience which most people can't create in isolation".
Contact Margaret
Website: https://www.mheffernan.com/
Buy Margaret's Books
Uncharted - How to Map the Future Together - mybook.to/Howtomapthefuture
The Naked Truth - A Working Woman's Manifesto on Business and What Really Matters - mybook.to/Nakedtruth
Wilful Blindness - Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril - mybook.to/Wilfulblindness
A Bigger Prize - Why Competition Isn't Everything and How We Do Better - mybook.to/Abiggerprize
Beyond Measure - The Big Impact of Small Changes - mybook.to/Beyondmeasure
Simple Scaling Book
Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business
About the Host
Director and Founder of Simple Scaling, Brendan brings 25 years' experience of scaling businesses. Previously, Brendan spent 16 years as a global business leader with CDE, 12 of those as Group MD, steering the company through the global financial crisis to considerable strategic growth success with offices now in 6 continents employing almost 700 people across the world (from 15) and 25X revenue growth.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/
https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team
Contact Simple Scaling:
www.simplescaling.com
Martin is the Managing Director of the Techstars Accelerator in Berlin, angel investor and entrepreneur. He believes that we need to build 750 more unicorn companies within the next 10 years in Europe to create millions of future jobs, make Europe more independent when it comes to technology and give many the opportunity to realize their full potential. Martin believes that 'builders' are the inventors of the 21st century and is doing everything in his power to support entrepreneurs working towards that mission. He is passionate about accelerating companies that make the planet a better place for humanity and connecting growth and purpose. In the past 15 years, Martin has co-created and scaled up five ventures, including Orphoz, a subsidiary for McKinsey & Company, a public company in Saudi-Arabia, the foundation MARA in Argentina and the FinTech N26. To support startup teams on their journey to build category-leading technology companies, Martin has written the book "The Builder's Guide to the Tech Galaxy – 99 Practices to Scale Startups into Unicorns Companies" (Haufe, Wiley).
He speaks regularly on topics such as: Startup Mindset, Scaling Technology Companies, Customer Experience, B2B Negotiations, Entrepreneurship.
In today's conversation we will explore:
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"Having a crystal-clear purpose brings you three key advantages. First, it attracts customers and ensures growth and profitability. Studies show that companies that score higher on purpose have a much higher likelihood to be amongst the top performers in shareholder return. Two, it's attracts investments. Three, AAA talent decides for or against the company if you match their values."
Contact Martin
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-schilling-2b4b5322/
Buy Martin's Book
The Builder′s Guide to the Tech Galaxy – 99 Practices to Scale Startups into Unicorn Companies
Link to book:
Amazon.co.uk: https://amzn.to/3zMDEe6
Amazon.com: https://amzn.to/3N1thpp
Simple Scaling Book
Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business
About the Host
Director and Founder of Simple Scaling, Brendan brings 25 years' experience of scaling businesses. Previously, Brendan spent 16 years as a global business leader with CDE, 12 of those as Group MD, steering the company through the global financial crisis to considerable strategic growth success with offices now in 6 continents employing almost 700 people across the world (from 15) and 25X revenue growth.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/
https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team
Contact Simple Scaling:
www.simplescaling.com
Joining me today is Mithu Storoni a physician, a researcher, and the author of Stress Proof: The Scientific Solution to Protect Your Brain and Body—and Be More Resilient Every Day. The book is full of practical evidence-based steps for protecting yourself against stress and its effects. Mithu spent years combing through over 1,000 research papers and clinical studies before condensing her findings into a manual which then became her book 'Stress Proof'. Some of its contents are surprising for example smelling the scent of a lemon can help you relax.
Mithu received her medical degree from the University of Cambridge, is certified in ophthalmology, and holds a PhD in neuro-ophthalmology. In today's conversation we will explore how to mitigate stress and overcome fear as you progress your scaling ambition.
In today's conversation we will explore:
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"You develop emotional reactivity so your rational way of thinking about the world is momentarily suppressed, and you become very emotionally responsive, and this has an advantage or had an advantage because this allowed us to predict danger before it happens by emotional instinct. Navigating a room full of people or a company full of employees, you cannot predict what another human being is saying or doing, and you also cannot predict other people's behaviour and control it. So, this now serves us in a poor way. In a state of acute stress people make high risk decisions. Decision making is skewed because the perception of reality is skewed. The negativity bias that happens during acute stress can sway your business decisions so always avoiding any kind of important decisions while you're acutely stressed is very important for this reason."
Contact Mithu
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mithu-storoni/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MithuStoroni
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mithustoroni/
Website: https://www.mithustoroni.com/
Buy Mithu's Book
Stress-Proof: The ultimate guide to living a stress-free life for Individuals, Organisations and Life
Link to book: mybook.to/stress-proof
Simple Scaling Book
Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business
About the Host
Director and Founder of Simple Scaling, Brendan brings 25 years' experience of scaling businesses. Previously, Brendan spent 16 years as a global business leader with CDE, 12 of those as Group MD, steering the company through the global financial crisis to considerable strategic growth success with offices now in 6 continents employing almost 700 people across the world (from 15) and 25X revenue growth.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/
https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team
Contact Simple Scaling:
www.simplescaling.com
Jamil Qureshi is one of today's foremost practitioners of performance enhancing psychology and is an expert in high performing teams. Jamil has enjoyed working with a rich diversity of the most talented business and sports people and teams in the world, helping six individuals get to World Number 1. He has worked with 22 golfers inside the top 50 in the world, including the likes of Paul McGinley, Sergio Garcia, Darren Clarke as well as two world number one's.
Ranked among the most influential figures in British sport in 2009, Jamil was voted in the top 100 most powerful men in golf 2008 by his international peers. He has worked successfully with 3 English Premiership football clubs, as well as 2 Formula 1 racing drivers, David Coulthard, and Eddie Irvine and the 2009 England Ashes winning cricketers.
In business and industry, Jamil has worked from CEO and board level to middle management in a variety of sectors in over 24 different countries, helping teams to fulfil their potential by orchestrating change and performance programmes.
He has developed and delivered management and leadership programmes at board level for Coca Cola, Hewlett Packard, Emirates Airlines, Serco, Marks and Spencer, and Royal Bank of Scotland. He has worked across Lloyds Banking Group on their 'Journey to World Class'.
He has led teams responsible for change management in several high-profile areas, such as Lloyds Banking Group's substantial integration strategy, and with The Post Office to create The Post Office Way as they separated from Royal Mail.
Jamil is also a world recognised speaker on all aspects of the psychology of performance, psychology of leadership, leadership attitudes, improving people, cultural change techniques, and team performance.
Today we discuss:
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"The reason why most people are limited in their ability to expand, progress and become more ambitious is their Belief System, it's what they believe to be true. The Belief System is probably the greatest inhibitor of human performance and holds us back more than anything else. Whatever we believe in regard to our stakeholders, our customers, our pricing points, our competition, globalisation, legislation, compliance, governance, all the things that affect business inside and out and whatever we believe holds us in place. For us to create bigger and better outcomes, we need to challenge our perspectives."
Contact Jamil
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamil-qureshi-494661a/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Jamil_Qureshi
Buy Jamil's Book
The Mind Coach: Be the person you really want to be
Amazon - mybook.to/JamilQureshi
Simple Scaling Book
Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business
About the Host
Director and Founder of Simple Scaling, Brendan brings 25 years' experience of scaling businesses. Previously, Brendan spent 16 years as a global business leader with CDE, 12 of those as Group MD, steering the company through the global financial crisis to considerable strategic growth success with offices now in 6 continents employing almost 700 people across the world (from 15) and 25X revenue growth.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/
https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team
Contact Simple Scaling:
www.simplescaling.com
Aidan McCullen is the host and founder of the Innovation Show, broadcast globally and on Ireland's national broadcaster, RTE. It's also the only English-speaking show on Finland's Business FM! It boasts such guests as Seth Godin, Rita McGrath and Charles Handy, and boasts Visa founder, Dee Hock, and Bill Gates amongst its listeners. Aidan is the author of the recently published book "Undisruptable: A Mindset of Permanent Reinvention for Individuals, Organisations and Life" with Wiley.
Aidan's work as a change consultant, speaker, facilitator, and workshop leader is based on his direct experience of reinvention in his own life and career. During his time as a professional rugby player, he won over 100 caps playing for Leinster, Toulouse and London Irish, as well as becoming a full Ireland Rugby International.
In his business life he developed the digital eco-system for Communicorp Radio Group, served as Head of Innovation for RTE (Ireland's National broadcaster), worked as an innovation consultant for Global company Katawave, and sits on the board of National Broadband Ireland.
He has also created and delivers a module on Emerging Technology Trends in Dublin's Trinity College Business School, which is ranked 1st in Ireland and in the top 100 globally.
Aidan's mastery of transformation in his own career from professional athlete to becoming one of Ireland's most recognized innovators in digital media has led to him being recognised as a thought leader in business transformation. Aidan believes that you cannot change business models until you change mental models. You cannot change what people do until you change how people think.
Today we discuss:
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"Mistakes as the source of learning as long as they're not repeat mistakes are absolutely essential because when it comes to invention and innovation mistakes are symbiotic with those processes of invention and innovation. You have to make mistakes when you're trying something new. Celebrate them and if you can, I encourage you to create a Kintsugi Wall which is a wall which highlights the things you have tried and didn't work. It might have been timing, you might have been too early to the marketplace, you may have articulated it in the wrong way but if you harness and keep that idea, someone may come along and say, "Do you remember that idea…What if?' And that's Kintsugi thinking."
Contact Aidan
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidanmccullen/
Useful Resources
theinnovationshow.io
Buy Aidan's Book
"Undisruptable: A Mindset of Permanent Reinvention for Individuals, Organisations and Life"
Amazon.com: https://amzn.to/3N0s9Df
Amazon.co.uk: https://amzn.to/3a5nVf9
Simple Scaling Book
Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business
About the Host
Director and Founder of Simple Scaling, Brendan brings 25 years' experience of scaling businesses. Previously, Brendan spent 16 years as a global business leader with CDE, 12 of those as Group MD, steering the company through the global financial crisis to considerable strategic growth success with offices now in 6 continents employing almost 700 people across the world (from 15) and 25X revenue growth.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/
https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team
Contact Simple Scaling:
www.simplescaling.com
Damian combines his practical and academic background within sport, organisational development and change psychology, to help organisations and teams to create a high performing culture.
He is the author of eight best-selling business books which have been translated into ten languages.
He was appointed as a Professor of Organisational Psychology and Change for Manchester Metropolitan University in September 2010.
He is the co-host of The High Performance Podcast, an acclaimed series of interviews with elite performers from business, sport and the arts, exploring the psychology behind sustained high performance.
He has served as a member of the coaching team for England Rugby League, Scotland Rugby Union and a wide range of international and national sporting teams.
His innovative and exciting approach has been praised by Sir Richard Branson, Muhammad Ali, Sir Terry Leahy, Sir Roger Bannister, Tiger Woods, Jonny Wilkinson and Sir Alex Ferguson.
We cover many insights and topics in this episode including:
Contact Damian
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damian-hughes-a376121/
Website: https://liquidthinker.com/about-damian
Get the book
Liquid Thinking: Inspirational Lessons from the World′s Great Achievers
mybook.to/Liquid-thinker
High Performance: Lessons from the Best on Becoming the Best
mybook.to/high-performance
Simple Scaling Book
Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business
About the Host
Director and Founder of Simple Scaling, Brendan brings 25 years' experience of scaling businesses. Previously, Brendan spent 16 years as a global business leader with CDE, 12 of those as Group MD, steering the company through the global financial crisis to considerable strategic growth success with offices now in 6 continents employing almost 700 people across the world (from 15) and 25X revenue growth.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/
https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team
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 identifying the key attributes that made them successful.
In today's episode, Brendan and Claire talk about:
Contact Claire
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-colvin-586a162b/
Link to 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
Director and Founder of Simple Scaling, Brendan brings 25 years' experience of scaling businesses. Previously, Brendan spent 16 years as a global business leader with CDE, 12 of those as Group MD, steering the company through the global financial crisis to considerable strategic growth success with offices now in 6 continents employing almost 700 people across the world (from 15) and 25X revenue growth.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/
https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team
Contact Simple Scaling:
www.simplescaling.com
Andrew Sillitoe is a business psychologist, author, and speaker. His innovative approach to leadership and work-life balance has earned him invitations to work with a range of global companies, including Pfizer, Nationwide, Virgin, and the BBC. Today Andrew is the CEO at Team Head Coach which runs the UK's number- one training company for entrepreneurs and business owners who want to succeed in business, health, relationships, and mindset.
Andrew has authored two books including, 'The Four Keys: How to Win in Your Business, Body, Relationships, and Mindset' and 'Manage The Mist: How to develop winning mindset and create high performing teams.'
Throughout Andrew's life sport and business have always been intertwined. He was the first British player to play professional roller hockey in North America, competing for his country and was fortunate enough to pull on the jersey in 11 world championships. When he wasn't competing, he was managing teams, consulting with CEOs, and working as a performance coach with business leaders and teams throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the U.S.
It was here in 2012 that he first identified the role of a 'player-coach' in business and where he saw high-performance contributors who were skilled at what they did become overwhelmed, stressed, and anxious because of what was happening in their business. He identified some glaring problems including lack of formal leadership training, poor time management skills, poor communication, an inability to delegate, but even with all this they were still performing well.
Key points we talk about include:
Key Takeaway
'Think about life in four keys - your business, your body, your relationship and your mindset. Some people think that they have got to be 100% at all of them. Like an equaliser, sometimes when you're scaling a business you think you need to be all in on the business putting in 12 to 13-hour days and 50-hour weeks, but it doesn't mean we switch the other three off which is sometimes what happens. We can become blind to the fact that it's more than that and business leaders need to ask themselves that if they only focus on work how will that show up in my relationships, what can I do for my body and my mind?'
Contact Andrew
Website: https://andrewsillitoe.com/
Buy the books:
The 4 Keys: How to Win in Your Business, Body, Relationships, and Mindset: mybook.to/The-4-Keys
Managing the Mist: How to Develop Winning Mind-Sets and Create High Performing Teams: mybook.to/managing-the-mist
Get the Simple Scaling book
Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business
About the Host
Director and Founder of Simple Scaling, Brendan brings 25 years' experience of scaling businesses. Previously, Brendan spent 16 years as a global business leader with CDE, 12 of those as Group MD, steering the company through the global financial crisis to considerable strategic growth success with offices now in six continents employing almost 700 people across the world (from 15) and 25X revenue growth.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/
https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team
Contact Simple Scaling:
www.simplescaling.com
Norman is an inspirational international entrepreneur who founded multiple successful businesses including The Cloud - Europe's largest WIFI operator, Inspired Gaming Group - the world's largest company in the server-based gaming domain, Trinity Commerce - one of the first eCommerce services companies in the world and Crowley Carbon. Today, Norman Crowley is the Founder of Coolplanet, a family of revolutionary companies working in collaboration to cool the planet as fast as possible.
He has successfully grown numerous businesses from start-ups to millions in annual sales through effective business planning, creative sales techniques, and innovative marketing.
Listed as one of Ireland's top entrepreneurs, he was nominated for the 2011 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year and is known for his contagious passion for excellence, his talent for resourceful business solutions, and a capacity for motivational leadership. He is currently a Board member of i2e2 Research Centre which focuses on researching energy efficiency improvements and is on the board of First Step Georgia (FSG) – a not-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for children with special needs.
Today we discuss:
Quote
"When you get up in the morning whether it's minding your children, or creating a startup or whatever you are doing, that is what defines you. The money is just points in the game. Don't confuse money being important with the reason why you're doing it. Money is just the speedometer that's telling you how fast you're going. It's really about what are you doing and the way you work. What I have learned by not retiring at 28 is that it's about the work which is why we were probably doing 6½ days a week and very long days and I haven't needed to work in 25 years."
Contact Norman
Twitter: @Normancrowley1
Website: www.coolplanet.ie
Website: (cool electric cars): www.studioava.com/
Simple Scaling Book
Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business
About the Host
Director and Founder of Simple Scaling, Brendan brings 25 years' experience of scaling businesses. Previously, Brendan spent 16 years as a global business leader with CDE, 12 of those as Group MD, steering the company through the global financial crisis to considerable strategic growth success with offices now in 6 continents employing almost 700 people across the world (from 15) and 25X revenue growth.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/
https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team
Contact Simple Scaling:
www.simplescaling.com
Holger Seim is the Co-founder and CEO of Blinkist - One of Europe's most exciting startups that almost never existed.
Founded in Berlin in 2012, Blinkist provides a selection of non-fiction knowledge in an app that makes it easy to fit learning into your everyday life. Highlighting key insights through audio and text explainers, called Blinks, original podcasts, and author-driven content, Blinkist is on a mission to help people turn ordinary moments into learning opportunities – it takes just 15 minutes to learn something new!
Today, the app is already used by over 20 million people worldwide and at the start of this year the fast-growing company raised an additional €35 million to transform the way we learn and develop.
In today's episode we talk about:
Quote:
"You need to have trust because if there is no trust there is no psychological safety. On top of that you need to have the ability to have courageous conversations, hold each other accountable, have clarity of one goal and speak with one voice. We also need to build the muscle to have courageous conversations to be able to give critical feedback without diminishing trust. None of this comes for free as it doesn't just happen. Sometimes it happens because you get along perfectly but as your leadership team grows statistically it's very unlikely that everything will be smooth and there will be people that do not have the same preferences as you. All of us have shortcomings that we need to work on together and individually."
Recommended Reading
Marshall B. Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication - A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships
Buy on Amazon: mybook.to/MichaelBRosenberg
Simple Scaling Book
Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business
About the Host
Director and Founder of Simple Scaling, Brendan brings 25 years' experience of scaling businesses. Previously, Brendan spent 16 years as a global business leader with CDE, 12 of those as Group MD, steering the company through the global financial crisis to considerable strategic growth success with offices now in 6 continents employing almost 700 people across the world (from 15) and 25X revenue growth.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/
https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team
Contact Simple Scaling:
www.simplescaling.com
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