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About Jeffrey:Jeffrey Shaw is a speaker and small business coach who helps self-employed and small business owners gain control of their business in what seems like otherwise uncontrollable circumstances.Drawing on his experience as a renowned portrait photographer, Jeffrey shows business owners how to see business through a different lens and strategies to compose the often-chaotic pieces of life and business into sustainable success. Jeffrey’s TEDx Lincoln Square talk is featured on TED.com, he’s the host of the top-rated podcast, The Self-Employed Life, author of The Self-Employed Life and LINGO, an in-demand keynote speaker at conferences, events and universities, a LinkedIn Learning instructor and contributing writer to Entrepreneur magazine.More on Jeffrey's background, values, and services.  Self-employed assessment. Self-employed Business Institute. My resources: Sign up to my Flashes+Sparks for stimuli, ideas, guidance and tips on how to lead your team, organisation or self more effectively, delivered straight to your inbox: If you're not subscribed already do subscribe to my youtube channel where you can watch the conversation. Take the Extraordinary Essentials test to identify your strengths and development areas. For more details about me: ★Services to CEOs, entrepreneurs and professionals. ★About me - my background, experience and philosophy. ★Examples of my writing. ★Follow me and engage with me on LinkedIn. ★Follow me and engage with me on Twitter.

You're a founder, Board member or Senior Executive. Tasked with scaling your business profitably and sustainably. But you're facing a complex, dynamic, volatile and uncertain environment. How do you make smart decisions about where to focus, and how to stimulate innovation in a world of ecosystems? How do you use venture capital wisely? How can you upskill your team to make important decisions?These are questions - and more - that Chris Rangen has been advising on, speaking about, and teaching for the last two decades.In this podcast find out what:★ High-performing Boards and executives do. ★ How to stimulate innovation and scale it.★ Role corporate venture capital can play.★ Ecosystems do to the way you strategise and operate.★ You can do to upskill people through learning simulations.More about Chris:Chris is one of Europe’s top strategy & innovation authorities, keynote speaker, business school faculty member, and workshop facilitator with clients across the globe. In 2022, he was listed as one of 30 thinkers to watch on the prestigious Thinkers50 Radar.He speaks and consults internationally to large companies and governments on innovative strategic transformation, innovation strategies, business model innovation & creative leadership development.See here for more about his portfolio of roles, services, and resources.For details about Strategy Tools courses, simulations, and tools look here.My resources:Sign up to my Flashes+Sparks for stimuli, ideas, guidance and tips on how to lead your team, organisation or self more effectively, delivered straight to your inbox:If you're not subscribed already and do subscribe to my youtube channel where you can watch the conversation. You can also find me here: LinkedIn. Twitter. Personal website, which includes more examples of my work, the services I offer and testimonials from clients.

How do you scale-up a start-up? How do you make sure a large corporate doesn't stifle innovation? These are questions - and many more - that Steve Blank has been addressing for decades as one of the world's leading authorities on entrepreneurship and innovation.In this podcast find out what:Companies do to innovation as they grow.The problem with innovation theatre is.It takes to create an ambidextrous organisation.The distinction is between an innovator and entrepreneur - and why successful.He compares founders to. He thinks of entrepreneurship as a career choice.He would advise an up-and-coming entrepreneur to do.More about Steve:Steve co-created the Lean Start Up movement through his work on customer development. He has been part of, or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups. He now teaches entrepreneurship and national security innovation to undergrads and postgrads at Stanford University as an Adjunct Professor. The National Science Foundation adopted his Lean Launchpad class as the U.S. standard for commercialising basic and applied research via the Innovation Corps. All his course material is open-sourced.His book 'Startup Owners Manual: the Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company.'For more details including his excellent newsletter go here.My resources: Sign up to my Flashes+Sparks for stimuli, ideas, guidance and tips on how to lead your team, organisation or self more effectively, delivered straight to your inbox:If you're not subscribed already do subscribe to my youtube channel where you can watch the conversation.Take the Extraordinary Essentials test to identify your strengths and development areas.For more details about me:★Services to CEOs, entrepreneurs and professionals.★About me - my background, experience and philosophy.★Examples of my writing.★Follow me and engage with me on LinkedIn.★Follow me and engage with me on Twitter.

Summary:Imagine your daughter or son, niece or nephew telling you that they couldn’t access the facilities like a museum, taxi, or arts gallery. What would you do? You’d feel disappointed. You might even write a letter to complain. But would you try to overhaul the system? That’s a big ask for any parent or relative. But that’s exactly what Janice Lintz did. Over the last twenty years she has fought for access for the deaf and hard of hearing like her daughter. Induction loops are now fitted in the NYC Transit, taxis and limousine. Airlines have closed captioning on films. All in all, her efforts have helped the 48 million Americans with hearing loss. Changing practices takes a lot of skill, determination, and commitment – it took nine years to introduce hearing loops in taxis. In this discussion Janice let us into her secrets of how she does it. This episode is for anyone who wants to become a strong advocate by: Getting attention. Sustaining interest. Making it easy for the sponsors/decision-makers to change. Following up with discipline. Strengthening your resilience.More about Janice: Janice Schacter Lintz is a passionate, accomplished hearing loss consultant and advocate, and CEO of Hearing Access & Innovations. Since 2002, Janice has become the global “go-to” person on all matters related to access for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Janice works with domestic and international organizations to benchmark best practices and leverage the most effective solutions for their situations. The New York City resident and mother of two is a 2023 Harvard Kennedy School Mid-Career MPA Candidate and a 2022 NYS Disability Rights Hall of Fame Inductee.You can find out more about Janice here and the organisation she leads My resources:Sign up to my Flashes+Sparks for stimuli, ideas, guidance and tips on how to lead your team, organisation or self more effectively, delivered straight to your inbox:If you're not subscribed already do subscribe to my youtube channel where you can watch the conversation.Take the Extraordinary Essentials test to identify your strengths and development areas.For more details about me:★Services to CEOs, entrepreneurs and professionals.★About me - my background, experience and philosophy.★Examples of my writing.★Follow me and engage with me on LinkedIn.★Follow me and engage with me on Twitter.

Summary: Whether we realise it or not, we all use mental models to think about our context (customers, competitors), make choices, structure work, and undertake key activities (such as doing innovation or pursuing M&A).  But how often do you stop for a moment to challenge them? Often we operate on autopilot. If they don't work, we try again, and again, without thinking of an alternative. My guest in this episode, Roger Martin, has spent his career developing these alternative mental models and approaches that challenge conventional wisdom. This episode is for anyone who is curious about how to think differently about how to:- Lead effectively.- Develop strategies that work.- Make decisions.More about Roger:In 2017, Roger was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. He is a a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego and Ford.He is a Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto where he served as Dean from 1998-2013.His newest book - his thirteenth - is  'A new way to think: your guide to superior management effectiveness.Also check out his weekly articles on strategy in Medium.My resources: Sign up to my Flashes+Sparks for stimuli, ideas, guidance and tips on how to lead your team, organisation or self more effectively, delivered straight to your inbox: If you're not subscribed already do subscribe to my youtube channel where you can watch the conversation.Take the Extraordinary Essentials test to identify your strengths and development areas. For more details about me: ★Services to CEOs, entrepreneurs and professionals.★About me - my background, experience and philosophy.★Examples of my writing.★Follow me and engage with me on LinkedIn.★Follow me and engage with me on Twitter.

Summary:Innovation is a topic that always comes up in my work with CEOs, senior executives and entrepreneurs. We focus on how to:create an innovation portfolio.balance different types of innovation.develop a more innovative culture.open up the organisation to external stimulus.But there are lots of myths and misunderstandings. Innovation "theatre" too. People talk a great game, but innovation practice doesn't live up to the promise. Who better to talk to about these topics than Bill Fischer, a guru on innovation and leadership; he worked with companies, like Haier, long before they became household names.  In this episode we talk about:innovation as a verb.CEOs who have the curiosity to be innovative.the power of conversations.the biggest myths of innovation.his challenges to design thinking and lean start up approaches.If you’re look for somebody to challenge conventional wisdom, and refresh your own mindset and approach to innovation, have a listen. More about Bill: Bill is an Emeritus Professor at IMD in Switzerland and a Senior Lecturer at MIT. He was inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame in 2019. He was the Executive President and Dean of the China Europe International Business School, in Shanghai, and served on the faculties of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Clarkson University.LinkedIn profile.Thinkers50 profile.Book 'Reinventing Giants: How Chinese Global Competitor Haier has Changed the Way Big Companies Transform'.My resources: Sign up to my Flashes+Sparks for stimuli, ideas, guidance and tips on how to lead your team, organisation or self more effectively, delivered straight to your inbox: If you're not subscribed already and do subscribe to my youtube channel where you can watch the conversation.  You can also find me here:LinkedIn.Twitter.Personal website, which includes more examples of my work, the services I offer and testimonials from clients.

Summary: “Digital transformation” is a big buzzword in business. But digital initiatives alone are not enough to win in the marketplace -- companies need to reimagine the compelling value they will offer and how they will create it in a differentiating way. Two senior partners from Strategy&, former colleagues and friends, set out seven leadership imperatives for transforming companies in the new digital era based on extensive research of twelve companies, including Philips, Microsoft and Adobe:Reimagine your company's place in the worldEmbrace and create value via ecosystemsBuild a system of privileged insights with your customersMake your organization outcome-orientedInvert the focus of your leadership teamReinvent the social contract with your peopleDisrupt your own leadership approachThis is a stimulating, immersive discussion leaving you with a new manifesto for leading your organisation. They even say which one of the leadership archetypes they are! I always try to get to the personal side too, as you know!More about Paul and Matt:Paul Leinwand is a thought leader on strategy, growth, and capability building for Strategy&, PwC's strategy consulting group. He is co-author of four books. Mahadeva Matt Mani is an advisor to executives on business model transformation and operating performance improvement for Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting business. He is the global leader of PwC and Strategy&'s transformation platform. Their book 'Beyond Digital: How Great Leaders Transform Their Organsation and Shape the Future', Harvard Business Review Press.My resources: Sign up to my Flashes+Sparks for stimuli, ideas, guidance and tips on how to lead your team, organisation or self more effectively, delivered straight to your inbox: If you're not subscribed already and do subscribe to my youtube channel where you can watch the conversation.  You can also find me here:LinkedInTwitterPersonal website, which includes more examples of my work, the services I offer and testimonials from clients. 

Summary:The last few years will have forced or encouraged us to make changes in our lives. In a positive light, some people have spent better quality time with family and friends, enjoyed the company of their neighbours, exercised more regularly and taken up hobbies again. But when the pressure's on, and there's no systemic "shock" to deal with, it's natural that we slip back to some of our old ways. To overcome this, Katy Milkman says we should understand our internal obstacles — or “opponents” — and then select the right strategies to overcome them. She picks seven obstacles we face - getting started, impulsivity, procrastination, forgetting, laziness, lack of confidence, and conformity. Whatever situation you’re in, she encourages us to do things that are enjoyable, otherwise we're not going to persist in changing our ways.More about Katy:Katy Milkman is the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a secondary appointment at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. Her research explores ways that insights from economics and psychology can be harnessed to change consequential behaviors for good, such as savings, exercise, student achievement, vaccination and discrimination. To that end, she co-founded and co-directs the Behavior Change for Good Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2021 Katy was named one of the world’s top 50 management thinkers and the world’s top strategy thinker by Thinkers50. The New York Times also named her bestselling book How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be one of the eight best books for healthyliving in 2021. Resources: Book - How to Change: the Science of Getting from where you are to where you want to be.Choiceology podcast.Katy's newsletter - the Milkman delivers.My resources:Sign up to my Flashes+Sparks for stimuli, ideas, guidance and tips on how to lead your team, organisation or self more effectively, delivered straight to your inbox:If you're not subscribed already and do subscribe to my youtube channel where you can watch the conversation. You can also find me here: LinkedIn Twitter Personal website, which includes more examples of my work, the services I offer and testimonials from clients

Summary:Strategy is a mystery to many of us. It’s an over-used, misunderstood term in business. Put simply, a strategy is a plan to create value. Don’t start with profit though. That’s the result of strategy. Instead, use a "value stick" which provides a way of measuring the two fundamental forces that lead to value creation and increased financial success: (1) the customer's willingness-to-pay (the top of the stick); and (2) the employee's willingness-to-sell their services to the business (the bottom of the stick).Companies that "win", according to Felix Oberholzer-Gee, create value for customers by raising their willingness-to-pay, and they provide value for talent by lowering their willingness-to-sell. He describes how to do this in this fascinating discussion, talking about the distinction between the creation and capture of value, the potential of “near-customers”, strategy in ecosystems, the power of value-maps, and the relationship between strategyand culture.More about Felix:Felix Oberholzer-Gee is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. He currently teaches competitive strategy in executive education programs such as the Program for Leadership Development, the Senior Executive Program for China, and in a program for media executives titled Effective Strategies for Media Companies. He hosts a HBR After House podcast, in which he discusses and debates current events that sit at the crossroads of business and culture with fellow HBS professors Youngme Moon and Mihir A. Desai. Here are some more of his resources:Research. Book ‘Better, Simpler Strategy’ HBR article ‘How to eliminate strategic overload’What is strategy video.My resources: Sign up to my Flashes+Sparks for stimuli, ideas, guidance and tips on how to lead your team, organisation or self more effectively, delivered straight to your inbox: If you're not subscribed already and do subscribe to my youtube channel where you can watch the conversation.  You can also find me here: LinkedIn Twitter Personal website, which includes more examples of my work, the services I offer and testimonials from clients 

Summary:Being a founder of a start-up takes courage, grit, entrepreneurial spirit. It takes a special kind of person. Somebody who is enormously self-driven, -determined and -motivated. But how far will these traits take you as you look to scale your business? And what will you need to start, stop and change in your leadership style? How will you work hard and smart to avoid burn out and mental health problems?Alisa Cohn, confidante and coach the founders and CEOs of some of the world’s most successful start-ups and scale-ups shares her perspective on these shifts in perspective and practice. More about Alisa:Named the Top Startup Coach in the World at the Thinkers50/Marshall Goldsmith Global Coaches Awards in London, Alisa Cohn has been coaching startup founders to grow into world-class CEOs for nearly 20 years. A onetime startup CFO, strategy consultant, and current angel investor and advisor, she was named the number one “Global Guru” of startups in 2021, and has worked with startup companies such as Venmo, Etsy, DraftKings, The Wirecutter, Mack Weldon, and Tory Burch.Book: From Start-Up to Grown-Up: Grow Your Leadership to Grow Your BusinessPodcast.My resources:Sign up to my Flashes+Sparks for stimuli, ideas, guidance and tips on how to lead your team, organisation or self more effectively, delivered straight to your inbox:If you're not subscribed already and do subscribe to my youtube channel where you can watch the conversation.You can also find me here:LinkedInTwitterPersonal website, which includes more examples of my work, the services I offer and testimonials from clients.