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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