The New P & L - Principles and Leadership in Business

This week on The New P&L we speak to Nick Bradley, world-renowned business growth expert, who works with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors, transforming good companies into great ones. Over the last decade, he has built, bought and sold 22 businesses with a combined valuation of $5.2 billion dollars. 

Nick also works with Private Equity and Venture Capital firms across the UK and the US leading business turnarounds, mergers, acquisitions and scale-ups and is the co-founder of The Fielding Group, a growth accelerator that helps companies improve business performance and host of the hugely successful 'Scale Up Your Business' podcast series.  His mission is to help create empires, bringing entrepreneurial skill set and mindset to people all over the world as a driving force of progression and prosperity. We discuss with Nick:

- Whether there are a common set of key characteristics that all successful entrepreneurial leaders possess

- What some of the biggest challenges entrepreneurs face today are

-  Whether entrepreneurs need a different set of skills to lead business as we work our way out of the pandemic? If so, how do they acquire these skills?

- The key elements that inhibit a successful M&A once the ink on the contract is dry

- The practical steps business leaders can take to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit within their employees for mutual benefit

- What companies can do to keep a culture of explosive or accelerated innovation and creativity after a founder or charismatic leader departs

Insta: @nickcbradley

FB: @nickcbradley

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickbradley-scaleupspecialist/

Web: www.suyb.global 

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- The are six core ingredients of The Energy Formula

- Whether the power is in our perception or in our energy

- Whether the quiet resilience we have all had to find over the last 12 months has created an untapped well of potential

- How mitochondria affects energy levels

- How we are fuelled, over-stimulated or distracted by fight or flight energy

- ‘Hustle and Flow’ productivity in business

- How Shawn has used the energy formula to overcome his own health challenges

To order a copy of: ‘The ENERGY Formula! Six Life Changing Ingredients to Unleash Your Limitless Potential’ go to: https://www.principlesandleadership.com/bookshop

Insta: @shawnwells

FB: @ ingredientologist

LI: @ingredientologist

Web: www.shawnwells.com

Book: www.energyformula.com 

The New P&L Monthly Business Book Review Club is sponsored by Carroll Consultancy Group: dramatically developing people, performance and profits. If you want to accelerate your business growth in 2021, go to carrollconsultancy.com to check out the programmes and initiatives they offer, or email [email protected] to book a time to discuss.

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This week, The New P&L speaks to Founder & CEO of Tech2025, Charlie Oliver. Sitting firmly at the intersection of business, technology and innovation, Tech2025 is a US-based global community, platform and consultancy for professionals to learn about the next wave of disruptive, emerging technologies and has quickly gained a reputation for helping professionals and companies to understand and embrace emerging technologies and the whirlwind changes they bring, helping them to strategise for the future impact of accelerating innovation. We discuss with Charlie: 

- Why the age of automation and AI conjures up fear and excitement in equal measure

- How can business leaders harness the best of these technologies to make leadership and businesses stronger and more principled

- Whether genuinely unbiased algorithms are actually achievable

- The risk of developing technology on the basis of the best of what we are, but ignoring our worse impulses in the process 

- If business leaders need a different set of leadership skills as we head deeper into the 21st century and if so, how do they acquire these skills

- The need for ‘tech businesses for good’ as well as ‘tech for good’

- Whether businesses need a moral philosopher

To learn more about Tech 2025 go to: www.tech2025.com 

The New P&L Creative Thinking for Leaders programme: www.principlesandleadership.com/creative-thinking-for-leaders-workshop

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Welcome to this week's The New P&L TO THE POINT where, in around 10 minutes each Friday, we break down the key elements of our weekly The New P&L conversations with industry leaders and entrepreneurs.  We offer an opinion on the key points from the conversations and how our listeners may practically apply them in their businesses. 

In today’s The New P&L TO THE POINT we break down and analyse this week’s conversation with Sean Swarner - internationally-respected explorer and adventurer, philanthropist, author, and keynote speaker.  This episode includes:  

- How your experiences define your core values 

- Living your best life today for a better tomorrow 

- Why ‘Comparison is the thief of joy’ 

- How consistency beats intensity 

- Why we should ‘master the moment’ not ‘master our mind’ 

- How tremendous change comes from small consistent actions 

- Why choosing to let go of what controls you is so powerful  

To learn more about Sean, go to: https://www.seanswarner.com/ 

To learn more about The Summit Challenge Programme, go to: https://www.seanswarner.com/the-summit-challenge/ 

Sean on Instagram: @seanswarner 

The New P&L Creative Thinking for Leaders programme: www.principlesandleadership.com/creative-thinking-for-leaders-workshop 

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This week on The New P&L we speak to Sean Swarner - internationally-respected explorer and adventurer, philanthropist, author, and keynote speaker. Sean is a two-time terminal-cancer survivor who climbed all seven of the highest summits on each continent, and has skied to both North and South Poles, making him the first cancer survivor to complete the Explorers Grand Slam – and all with only one functioning lung as he lost function of the other lung as a teenager as a result of his cancer treatments.

Sean's adventures and passions have captured the attention of millions, and in 2017 a team followed Sean to the North Pole and made a documentary about him and his triumphs. The documentary, True North, was released on Amazon Prime. In 2018, Sean was voted one of the top 8 most inspirational people in history and was the recipient of the Don't Ever Give Up Award presented by the Jimmy V Foundation and ESPN. We discuss with Sean:

- his inspirational journey from teenage terminal cancer survivor to global explorer

- the core principles that underpin his life and his success

- the importance of mastering the moment not your mind

- setting positive daily habits

- what defines great leadership

- how to overcome limiting self beliefs and doubts

- Sean's Summit Challenge Programme

To learn more about Sean, go to: https://www.seanswarner.com/

To learn more about The Summit Challenge Programme, go to: https://www.seanswarner.com/the-summit-challenge/

Sean on Instagram: @seanswarner

The New P&L Creative Thinking for Leaders programme: www.principlesandleadership.com/creative-thinking-for-leaders-workshop

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In today’s The New P&L TO THE POINT we take another break from the weekly analysis of The New P&L Deep Discussion interviews and instead take 10 minutes to reflect on the incredible power of simple curiosity. We discuss:

· The increased need for creativity in business as a result of the pandemic

· Why we need to exercise the creative and curiosity ‘muscles’

· How curiosity feeds creativity

· Increasing your creativity through increasing your lived experiences

· How to fill your ‘creativity cup’

· The problems with echo chambers when it comes to creativity

· The importance of curating curiosity

· How we can nurture creativity in a business setting

· The paradox of frameworks for creative thinking

· Why the last 12 months could be a milestone moment for creative thinking in business

The New P&L Creative Thinking for Leaders programme: www.principlesandleadership.com/creative-thinking-for-leaders-workshop

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This week on The New P&L - Principles & Leadership in Business podcast series we speak to real estate entrepreneur, Willie J. Davis and brand builder and vice president of Marketing for Venture Capital firm, Panoramic Ventures, Tami McQueen. We discuss how the last 12 months have shaped their careers and entrepreneurial journeys as well as their views on what the shape of leadership, entrepreneurship and the relationship between brand and consumer looks like as we slowly emerge from the pandemic over the next year. The conversation includes:

- How a brand’s principles, values and trustworthiness should be measured in a post-pandemic world

- Why leaders start to step out of their comfort zone and into new world of social engagement and activism

- The balance between purchasing on the basis purpose and the basis of budget 

- The ways business models adapted in 2020

- How the pandemic has forced a rethink of the relationship between brand and customer

- Tami & Willie's brilliant podcast, 'On The Verge'

Willie Davis: williejdavis.com 

Panoramic Ventures: panoramic.vc  

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Welcome to this week's The New P&L TO THE POINT. The New P&L TO THE POINT is a weekly podcast series where, in around 10 minutes each Friday, we break down the key elements of our weekly The New P&L conversations with industry leaders and entrepreneurs.  We offer an opinion on the key points from the conversations and how our listeners may practically apply them in their businesses.

In today’s The New P&L TO THE POINT we take a break from the weekly analysis of The New P&L Deep Discussion interviews and instead take 10 minutes to reflect on The New P&L reaching the 100 podcast milestone, which was achieved last week.  We discuss:

- How and why The New P&L concept was conceived

- The five core principles that have defined it from the outset

- The four key lessons we have learned in the last six months

We would also like to thank everyone who has been a supporter of The New P&L in so many ways over the last 18 months and 100 episodes: our guests, our listeners, our sponsors, our supporters, partner businesses and everyone who believes in us and in The New P&L for business.

Thank you. Paul & The New P&L team.

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This week, The New P&L - Principles & Leadership in Business podcast series speaks to Franziska Iseli, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Basic Bananas – the world’s largest marketing mentoring and education organisation specifically dedicated to supporting SME business owners right across the globe.  We discuss with Franziska:

- how business owners can embrace the current chaos and find the motivation to transform their business;

- finding effectiveness in simplicity when it comes to marketing;

- processes that can be put into place to tap into the ideas, experiences and creativity of all employees;

- principles that can be put in place to stop repeating marketing mistakes;

-aligning your marketing to where you customers are; 

- the need to rethink why your customers really come to you;

- the importance of focusing on building a purposeful brand;

- why storytelling matters so much in business

If you would like to learn more about Basic Bananas, please go www.basicbananas.com

Instagram @basicbananas

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In part two of this month’s The New P&L Business Book Review Club, sponsored by Carroll Consultancy, we speak to Alex Holmes, an award-winning podcaster, mental health & emotional resilience coach and author of the brilliant new book: TIME TO TALK.

In TIME TO TALK, Alex explores how the expectations put on men through the lens of masculinity are in fact silencing them – and how this impacts their mental health. He debunks commonly held ‘Real Man Myths’ and breaks down the taboos about men being vulnerable and emotional, encouraging us instead to embrace an honest, open dialogue both within ourselves, and with those we love and trust.

To order a copy of TIME TO TALK go to:

www.bookshop.org

https://www.principlesandleadership.com/bookshop

To learn more about Alex, his book, his podcast and the work he does, go to: www.alexholmes.co 

If you have been affected by any of the themes discussed in this podcast, please seek professional advice. In the UK, you can start with your local GP, NHS mental health service or a mental health charity, two of which we have listed below:

https://www.mind.org.uk/

https://www.samaritans.org/

The New P&L Monthly Business Book Review Club is sponsored by Carroll Consultancy Group: dramatically developing people, performance and profits. If you want to accelerate your business growth in 2021, go to carrollconsultancy.com to check out the programmes and initiatives they offer.

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