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Today on The New P&L Business Book Review Club, sponsored by The Carroll Consultancy Group, we speak to renowned performance coach Owen Eastwood, author of ‘Belonging – The Ancient Code of Togetherness’

Owen is focused on building high performance cultures and teams and has worked with some of the most recognised teams and brands in the world including the England Football team, South African Cricket team, the British Olympic squad and NATO, as well as a number of leading global business brands Belonging considers the Māori concept of Whakapapa, which embodies our universal human need to belong and is a powerful spiritual belief that each of us is part of an unbroken and unbreakable chain of people who share a sacred identity and culture.

Owen places the concept of Whakapapa at the heart of his approach to maximise a business’s and a team's performance. We discuss with Owen:

- the essence of the Māori concept of Whakapapa

- how Whakapapa forms a core foundation of Owen’s work

- whether there is an optimal environment for performance

- the chemical / biological / physical reactions that occur within the human mind and body when we feel we belong to a group

- how you maintain culture and performance when new people come into teams or groups

- who is ultimately responsible for recognising how a legacy and culture is evolving and acting as the guardian of it

- how Owen ensures new entrants into a business or sports team understand the depth of commitment to Whakapapa or its origin story

- how leaders ensure cultural commitment to purpose and evolution in the face of more immediate commercial and operational challenges

Thank you once again to The Carroll Consultancy, our sponsors of The New P&L Business Book Review Club, The Carroll Consultancy is focused on dramatically developing people, performance and profits. If you want to accelerate your business growth, go to www.carrollconsultancy.com.

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This week on The New P&L TO THE POINT we break down and analyse our conversation with the marketing legend that is David Sable, former global CEO of Young & Rubicam - one of the world’s leading global marketing communications companies. David is also a Global Marketer; Strategic Advisor to multiple start-ups and brands, sort-after Motivational Speaker and now also Founder of new start-up Doable. This The New P&L TO THE POINT episode discusses:

· why we might be losing the ability to learning to ‘read a room’ in meetings

· the real power of reading a room

· the other softer business skills also under threat

· why full-time office-based work is no longer realistic

· thinking about Why and What before How in the return to workspaces and offices

· rethinking and re-imagining the approach to hybrid working

· starting with opportunities, not challenges

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This week on The New P&L – Principles & Leadership in Business podcast series we are speak to the phenomenal David Sable - former global CEO of Young & Rubicam - one of the world’s leading global marketing communications companies; Global Marketer; Strategic Advisor to multiple start-ups and brands, sort-after Motivational Speaker and now also Founder of new start-up Doable.

An early digital entrepreneur, David is a genuine industry thought leader and is called on from brands around the world for his marketing and digital expertise.  And finally, and incidentally, David is also a die-hard The Doors fan which also happens to be my favourite all-time band! We discuss with David:

· how David defines creativity in a business context

· whether we are outsourcing our curiosity to an algorithm

· how we reengage our natural curiosity

· the aggregate effect of the pandemic on creativity

· what will happen to us psychologically over time when technology effectively becomes our line manager

· the mundane vs the creative activities at work

· how business leaders lead with curiosity and inquiry rather than assumption

· hubris in leadership

· David's favourite The Doors album and why!

To follow David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsable/

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This week on The New P&L TO THE POINT we break down and analyse our conversation with the incredible Stefania Di Bartolomeo, Founder and CEO of Physis Investment, an incredibly exciting impact investment start-up with offices in the US and Italy.

Stefania founded Physis Investment with the vision of bringing greater transparency to the financial industry. Its mission is to help investors understand, track, and measure the impact of their portfolios and works with asset managers and investment institutions who believe that their financial assets portfolio can and should deliver more than just a financial impact – they can also have a positive and sustainable impact too – on the environment and for society. We discuss:

· entrepreneurial tenacity

· the desire to ‘do what’s right and to do it well’

· the entrepreneur and the delusion

· why we need to cast a more the self-critical eye on our products

· why it’s just not enough to simply do what’s right, but so it exceptionally well as well

· confidence and trust as the foundations of integrity

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This week’s guest on The New P&L - Principles & Leadership in Business podcast series is Stefania Di Bartolomeo, Founder and CEO of Physis Investment, an incredibly exciting impact investment start-up with offices in the US and Italy.

Stefania founded Physis Investment with the vision of bringing greater transparency to the financial industry. Its mission is to help investors understand, track, and measure the impact of their portfolios and works with asset managers and investment institutions who believe that their financial assets portfolio can and should deliver more than just a financial impact – they can also have a positive and sustainable impact too – on the environment and for society.

Physis is aligned with global standards including the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment. Through these commitments, it aims to contribute to developing a more sustainable global financial system. We discuss with Stefania:

· How aligning core values and principles with impact investment works in practice

· How ESG is gradually moving from the perception of a compliance or reductionist model – companies needing to give up something - to one based on opportunity

· How Physis ensures the companies they are assessing are not just offshoring to distort their ethical credentials

· What link is most vulnerable to breaking in the sustainable investment model

· At what point does a business become an ethical business

· Algorithmic bias in impact investment analysis

· Algorithms and intuition

· What the aggregate effect of the pandemic will be on impact investing

· The challenges of being a female founder in technology start-up

· The importance of mentorship

To learn more about what Stefania and her team do, go to www.physisinvestment.com

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Welcome to this week’s The New P&L to the point – episode 154 – a special anniversary episode.  As we celebrate our two-anniversary of The New P&L Principles and leadership in Business podcast series this week, we are going to use this episode to discuss some of the key takeaways we have learnt from this amazing experience so far.

In the last two years, we have published 154 episodes of The New P&L – Principles & Leadership in Business podcast series.  We’ve hosted nearly 130 guests on the show, produced and published 44 The New P&L to the point episodes, facilitated half a dozen round tables and each month, we are listened to by 1000s of business people, leaders and entrepreneurs in nearly 80 countries right across the globe.

We have covered dozens and dozens of important topics and trends in business that impact on purpose, principles and leadership in business and offered to our listeners, via the wisdom of our guests, literally 1000s of insightful recommendations, observations, strategies and tactics; building an international reputation for digging deeper into the business topics that matter and earning ourselves a position in the top 5% of podcasts globally in the process.

In this special second anniversary episode of The New P&L TO THE POINT, we discuss:

· Two of the key lessons we’ve learned in the last two years

· Our ‘Well of Resilience’

· The huge highs and lows on our entrepreneurial journey

· Why entrepreneurs have to believe there is a better tomorrow

· Harnessing resilience and using it to underpin our mindset and businesses

· The importance of being intentional about curiosity and creativity in many moments

· Being disciplined about creative thinking

· How creativity rewards you for your discipline

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This week’s guest on The New P&L - Principles & Leadership in Business podcast series is the brilliant John Harris, President and CEO of Worldwide Partners, Inc. (WPI), one of the largest and fastest-growing networks of owner-led, independent advertising and marketing communications agencies in the world. WPI is comprised of over 70 agencies located in more than 40 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and North America. WPI agencies serve an incredible range of global brands including 3M, McDonald’s, Amazon, Lufthansa and Pfizer and represent over 5 billion USD in annual billings.

We discuss with John:

· how we maintain or build a more cohesive and collaborative culture in a more remote world of work

· how WPI achieves a cohesive sense of purpose across a diverse global organisation

· whether it is reasonable to expect a global business to have a single culture and set of guiding principles

· what the ultimate impact will be of businesses looking for talent on a global not a local basis

· if the traditional agency model broken beyond repair as many claim, or just evolving

· what the advertising industry needs to do to ensure it embraces the best components of industry disruption

· the characteristics of leadership that will define the future of the advertising industry

· how the industry needs redefine and reaffirm the creative and strategic value it brings to the relationship it has with its clients

If you would like to learn more about what Worldwide Partners does and the agencies within that that operate in your market, please go to: https://www.worldwidepartners.com/

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This week on The New P&L TO THE POINT we break down and analyse our conversation with the incredible Nathalie Nahai, author of the brilliant new book, Business Unusual - Uncertainty and the Psychology of Brand Resilience.  Paul, host of The New P&L discusses:

· the challenges some business leaders building a cohesive and collective sense of culture in a much more disparate or atomised workforce

· the definition of heroic leadership and transformational leadership and what their differences

· how leaders move from heroic and transformational leadership

· why heroic leadership is hardwired into society and history

· how heroic leadership distorts when it transfers to business

· how we reward heroic leadership in business

· the primal appeal of heroism

· why we need to change the rewards if we want to change the leadership style

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Today on The New P&L Business Book Review Club, sponsored by The Carroll Consultancy Group, we speak to leading business psychologist Nathalie Nahai on her brilliant new book, Business Unusual: Values, Uncertainty and the Psychology of Brand Resilience.

Nathalie is a speaker, author and consultant, whose work explores persuasive technology, ethics, and the psychology behind evolving consumer behaviours. With clients including Google, Unilever and Accenture, she teaches companies how to ethically apply behavioural science to enhance their online presence, communications and customer experience. We discuss with Nathalie:

· the challenges of creating a more cohesive culture and building a sense of attachment and purpose with a more ‘atomised’ workforce

· the responsibility employees have to act on and drive a brand’s commitment to be more socially and environmentally active

· issues of trust in business

· how we should we measure a company’s principles, values and trustworthiness be measured in a post-pandemic world

· how you find authenticity in a business that has built many layers over time

· the well of resilience we have built through the pandemic and how to use it now

· the responsibilities the tech giants have to business, society and government in return for their privileged position

· whether algorithms are diminishing our natural curiosity

· the pursuit of happiness and eudemonic cultures at work

· the characteristics of future leaders

Thank you once again to The Carroll Consultancy, our sponsors of The New P&L Business Book Review Club, The Carroll Consultancy is focused on dramatically developing people, performance and profits. If you want to accelerate your business growth in 2021, go to www.carrollconsultancy.com.

To purchase a copy of Business Unusual, go to: www.businessunusualthebook.com

To download The Values Map go to: www.thevaluesmap.com

To learn more about Nathalie and the work she does go to: www.nathalienahai.com

Top Listen to The Hive Podcast, go to: www.nathalienahai.com/the-hive-podcast

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