Is embodying a growth mindset the secret to successful leadership" These major entrepreneurs, (including the co-founder of a unicorn status bank OakNorth), swear by it.
We re told as entrepreneurs that bigger is best, that we should concentrate on growth at all costs and that a key measure of success is turnover and the number of staff that we employ. But that approach can lead to misery, burn out and poor mental health. Here's my own story about growth, expectations, ego and the lessons I learned as a CEO of a growing business.
"Becoming a mum is the best thing I have ever done. Setting up my own business is the second." Here's why Petra Smith, founder of Squirrels&Bears?believes being a mum makes her better in business.
I'm a female leader who, like many, has built herself up to a position of leadership. But how do you stay on top especially if the industry you're leading in happens to be dominated by men" My first piece of advice Never apologise for being an entrepreneurial and driven woman in business.
A powerful aspect of the entrepreneurial mindset that we see every day at The Supper Club is how founders use their personal networks and peer learning to understand the problems they need to solve and then how to solve them.
The business sector has been hit by some massive changes in recent years, (cue tech innovation and globalisation). However, there are challenges that board level leaders face that remain the same as they were thirty years ago. I give you tips to navigate both traditional and new challenges that senior staff face in business life. Start by using the acronym VUCA. I'll break it down for you.
Slowly but surely we are lumbering towards Brexit. Whatever the outcome, you as a business owner and team leader have to deal with the reverberations. From my background playing professional cricket, and through my current career in performance consultancy, I know a lot about the importance of a good mindset and managing self-discipline in tricky situations. Here are my four mindset hacks that you can apply to your business when dealing with Brexit.
Superdry founder Julian Dunkerton is waiting on the outcome of a shareholder meeting to see if he can come back as a director. The board is urging shareholders to vote against his reappointment, and considering that his last year of power at Superdry coincided with poor sales, are they right to do so" It also begs the question, when is the right time for a founder to step away from a company, and what can other entrepreneurs do to ensure they know when that right time is?
International Women's Day has been and gone. But the UK still lags behind other world leading economies when it comes to the number of female entrepreneurs doing business. A new treasury led report proposes ways to change that, including the fact that doing so could release billions of pounds back into the UK economy.
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