The New P & L - Principles and Leadership in Business

Welcome to the very first ‘The New P&L: Voices Behind the Build Back’ podcast mini-series.

This new podcast mini-series is aimed at SMEs, start-ups, entrepreneurs and small business owners who are working hard to recover and rebuild and transform their businesses as we slowly emerge from the pandemic.

Over the next few months, we will speak to business owners and entrepreneurs about their experiences over the past 12 months and their hopes for the future of their business, as well as speaking with experts, consultants and industry thought leaders who will offer their views and advice on how we can all build our businesses back stronger, more resilient and more successful.

Our first episode today features Jamie Palmer, co-founder of UK social innovation enterprise, Social Supermarket. 

Social Supermarket believes in a world where every business can be a force for good. By connecting customers with social enterprises that are producing high quality goods in a more sustainable way, consumers can buy from amazing brands that have a positive impact in the world.

To learn more about Social Supermarket, go to: www.socialsupermarket.org

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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.

Today’s episode of The New P&L TO THE POINT breaks down and analyses our conversation with global President & CEO of CENTURY 21® - the world’s largest network of real estate agents.

In this episode we discuss the role technology disruption has always played in industries and the need for entrepreneurs, business owners and business leaders to reframe the way they think about disruption - suggesting it needs to be seen as an opportunity to embrace and utilise to their own advantage, rather than a threat to fear.

We go on to discuss the need for business to defy mediocrity – always, but especially right now as we emerge from the pandemic and how a focused mission and an empathetic leadership can help this by setting the solid foundations needed for building high-performing, highly motivated and cohesive company cultures.

twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @Century21

Web: century21.com/about-us/newsroom/media

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This week on The New P&L - Principles & Leadership in Business podcast series, we speak to Mike Miedler, global President & CEO at CENTURY 21® - the world’s largest network of estate agents, with around 13,000 offices and 146,000 sales professionals spanning 85 countries worldwide.

We chat with Mike on the challenges and opportunities of building and leading a cohesive company culture with a truly global workforce; technology disruption, its impact on more traditional industries and what businesses can do to harness the best these technologies has to offer; the issue of senior executive isolation in companies and how it has been accentuated by the pandemic; as well as the effective management of corporate reputations.

To learn more about CENTURY 21® go to:

twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @Century21

Web: century21.com/about-us/newsroom/media

Join The New P&L community: www.principlesandleadership.com 

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.

Today’s episode of The New P&L TO THE POINT breaks down and analyses the brilliant The New P&L Deep Discussions Roundtable explores the impact of culture on commercial success.

In 2020, global brand consulting and design agency, Landor & Fitch conducted a series of interviews with senior executives from some of the world’s most exciting and fastest-growing ‘Unicorn’ tech companies to understand the critical and powerful role culture plays in their business. The findings were outlined in Landor & Fitch’s ‘Culture is Brand, Brand is Culture: How Unicorns achieved success’ Report.

This week’s roundtable discussion brought together the two authors of the Report as well as two of the Unicorn brands themselves to discuss the role culture continues to play in their success. Today on The New P&L TO THE POINT we discuss the key points raise in that discussion.

Link to the full Landor & Fitch Report:

https://atticus.wpp.com/api/wppawardsite/file/57e18eac-6054-4487-8724-98c440ee8daf

The New P&L Monthly Business Book Review Club, sponsored by Carroll Consultancy Group is new monthly podcast series, where on the last Thursday of each month, we review one or two business or business-related books and speak to their authors.

Our authors for this inaugural episode of The New P&L Monthly Business Book Review Club are Minter Dial and Peggy McColl.

Minter Dial is an award-winning film maker, author, keynote speaker and leadership and brand strategy expert. Minter was also formerly head of Redken Worldwide  - part of the L'Oréal group. We speak to Minter about his latest book: ‘You Lead - How Being Yourself Makes You A Better Leader’.

We then speak to Peggy McColl, world-renowned wealth, business and manifestation expert and New York Times best-selling author who has recently released her 19th book titled– Savy Wisdom, a parable that offers some deep personal insights for all of us as entrepreneurs, employees and business leaders.

Minter Dial's conversation timecode: 2.48 mins to 36.45 mins

Peggy McColl's conversation timecode: 37.17 mins to 1:18.57 mins 

Links:

To order a copy of: ‘You Lead - How Being Yourself Makes You A Better Leader’ go to: https://www.principlesandleadership.com/bookshop

To order a copy of: ‘Savy Wisdom’ go to:https://www.principlesandleadership.com/bookshop 

To find out more about Minter Dial go to: www.minterdial.com

Instagram: @mdial

To find out more about Peggy McColl go to: www.peggymccoll.com

Instagram: peggy.mccoll

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. 

To subscribe to all of The New P&L series podcasts, go to: www.principlesandleadership.com

In 2020, global brand consulting and design agency, Landor & Fitch conducted a series of interviews with senior executives from some of the world’s most exciting and fastest-growing ‘Unicorn’ companies to understand the critical and powerful role culture plays in their businesses.

The findings were outlined in Landor & Fitch’s ‘Culture is Brand, Brand is Culture: How Unicorns achieved success’ Report.

In this special The New P&L Deep Discussions Roundtable we bring together the two authors of the Report as well as two of the Unicorn brands themselves to discuss the role culture continues to play in their commercial success.

Link to the full Landor & Fitch Report: https://atticus.wpp.com/api/wppawardsite/file/57e18eac-6054-4487-8724-98c440ee8daf

Welcome to The New P&L TO THE POINT - a weekly podcast series where, in around 10 minutes, 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 tips on how our listeners may practically apply them in their businesses.

Today's The New P&L TO THE POINT analyses The New P&L conversation with the inspirational Bayo Adelaja, founder and CEO of Do It Now Now.

We start by discussing the role Do It Now Now plays at the intersection of entrepreneurship, leadership, and social action; looking at how Bayo and her team are helping young black entrepreneurs increase their health and happiness and what this means in practical terms.

We then consider the challenges many entrepreneurs have with access to, and support from, the innovation accelerators and incubators whose frameworks are too tightly designed to embrace a diverse range of entrepreneurs. Finally, we consider the customer-first focus that underpins everything that Do It Now Now delivers and the initiatives it offers, a focus that is based on ‘doing what is right, not what is operationally easy.’

To subscribe to The New P&L and keep up to date with all our latest podcasts, workshops, and resources. go to: www.principlesandleadership.com

To learn more about what Bayo and her team do go to: www.doitnownow.com

On this week’s episode of The New P&L, we speak to Bayo Adelaja, CEO of Do It Now Now - an open innovation organisation committed to bringing social empowerment to Black communities and entrepreneurs across the globe.

Bayo Adelaja founded Do it Now Now in 2016 in response to gaps in the support available to Black innovators building tech companies and social enterprises in the UK and across Africa. The initiatives Bayo developed for Do it Now Now have led to awards from both Harvard University and Oxford University's Business Schools for her work to create and foster opportunities for under-served communities through technology. Three of the initiatives Bayo has designed to support underrepresented people in tech, have also been named "Top in Europe" by FT-backed digital news platform, Sifted.

In 2018, Bayo was named one of the ‘Most Influential Women in Social Entrepreneurship’ in the UK by NatWest Bank, and she has designed the UK’s first-ever enterprise support program for women of colour, the BAME Female Founders Incubator for Hatch Enterprise. Over the last six years, Bayo has worked with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Google and many other international organisations and global brands, offering her wealth of experience and knowledge on open innovation, mentoring, educating business on diversity and inclusion, and delivering crucial social impact programs.

Today we discuss with Bayo her own entrepreneurial journey and what led to her establishing Do It Now Now; the challenges faced by entrepreneurs and tech innovators from underrepresented communities in terms of access to support, funding and investment; the importance of building innovation accelerators and incubators that are fit for purpose for all entrepreneurs; the definition of Open Innovation and why it is fundamental to Do It Now Now’s operational model; as well as inspirational examples of some of the young Black entrepreneurs Bayo is working with in The UK and Africa who are playing their part in building a better world.

You can learn more about Do It Now Now and the range of initiatives it offers to support entrepreneurs and technology innovators by going to: www.doitnownow.com

Welcome to a special edition of The New P&L TO THE POINT - a weekly podcast series where, in around 10 minutes, 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 tips on how our listeners may practically apply them in their businesses.

Today's The New P&L TO THE POINT analyses The New P&L conversation with John Lee Dumas, host of the phenomenally successful Entrepreneurs On Fire podcast series.

We start by breaking down the quote attributed to Albert Einstein “Try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value” and what it means in a business context – how you add value each step of the way in business to ensure you are ‘offering the best solution to a real problem’; we consider the powerful role perspective plays in business decision-making and the need to be self-aware enough to recognise how you can use your perspective to your advantage; and the crucial role Mastermind Groups play in the personal and professional development of entrepreneurs and all business people.

To subscribe to The New P&L and keep up to date with all our latest podcasts, workshops, and resources. go to: www.principlesandleadership.com

To pre pre-order John Lee Dumas’s ‘The Common Path to Uncommon Success’ (released 23rd March 2021) go to: www.uncommonsuccessbook.com

To listen to the Entrepreneurs on Fire podcast go to: https://www.eofire.com

Welcome to this week's The New P&L TO THE POINT - 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 tips on how our listeners may practically apply them in their businesses.

Today's The New P&L TO THE POINT analyses this week's The New P&L conversation with Heide Cohu, former Global Director of Creative & Brand Communications for Bacardi and former global communications lead for Red Bull's Stratos project, now founder of the influential UK-based brand experience agency, The Studio of Art & Commerce.

In this episode, we break down and analyse two of the key themes to come out of the conversation with Heide. We start by discussing the critical role creative thinking will play more broadly in business as we all slowly exit the pandemic over 2021; reflecting on the belief that if creativity wasn’t important for some businesses before, it certainly will be now and how leaders who don’t actively and comprehensively apply creativity and creative thinking right across their businesses will be those most likely to not survive the coming year. We go on to consider whether the concept of creative thinking and creativity actually needs a rebrand when it comes to their application in business - changing the perspectives around what they constitute and how they benefit business.  

We then discuss the critical role mentoring should and does play in business and how in this regard, we need to firmly act in the way we believe change should happen. Not just agitate, not just talk, make grand statements about inclusivity for example, but take action: help, mentor, engage, meet, talk, encourage.  There is an incredible amount of talent that just needs even a glint of light, of hope to allow it to break out and flourish.

If you enjoyed today's The New P&L TO THE POINT episode, take a moment to listen to this week's full The New P&L interview with Heide Cohu - Episode 78.

You can learn more about Heide and her team by going to: www.studioartcommerce.com

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