Podcast Episode 17 - How to De-Risk a Transaction
The Growth Whisperers is a weekly podcast hosted by Brad Giles and Kevin Lawrence two advisors to mid-market businesses, one Australian, one Canadian, who each work with CEOs and Leadership Teams across the world with a mission to build enduring, great companies. Each weekly episode covers interesting situations and questions from the world of strategic planning, leadership development, talent and hiring in high growth entrepreneurial companies where real results matter.
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Emirates and Barbados - Kevin and Brad talk about how the United Arab Emirates and Barbados are helping consumers remove the risk from spending money during COVID-19 and how this concept might apply to your business.
Catalytic Mechanism - How can you de-risk a transaction so the company feels the onus to deliver, versus the customer feeling they are taking the risk – and use that to grow sales. Kevin and Brad provide examples of companies who are successfully using this concept.
Podcast Episode 16 - Jim Collins and His Concepts
The Growth Whisperers is a weekly podcast hosted by Brad Giles and Kevin Lawrence two advisors to mid-market businesses, one Australian, one Canadian, who each work with CEOs and Leadership Teams across the world with a mission to build enduring, great companies. Each weekly episode covers interesting situations and questions from the world of strategic planning, leadership development, talent and hiring in high growth entrepreneurial companies where real results matter.
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Jim Collins event and his concepts - This week the Growth Whispers discuss an event they both attended with Jim Collins, and how they use Jim’s key concepts with CEOs and leadership teams. Kevin and Brad discuss the Brutal facts, aligning to your flywheel, and the Stop doing list.
Podcast Episode 15 - Toxic High Performers, Confidence in 6 Months
The Growth Whisperers is a weekly podcast hosted by Brad Giles and Kevin Lawrence two advisors to mid-market businesses, one Australian, one Canadian, who each work with CEOs and Leadership Teams across the world with a mission to build enduring, great companies. Each weekly episode covers interesting situations and questions from the world of strategic planning, leadership development, talent and hiring in high growth entrepreneurial companies where real results matter.
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Toxic High Performers - Brad & Kevin discuss the concept of High Performers who are culturally toxic. The people who are great at making the numbers but cause damage within the organization. Why are they such a challenge? Why do we keep them? Why don't we take action. Finally, a specific playbook for how to deal with Toxic A players.
Confidence in 6 months - Kevin and Brad talk about a survey of 172 CEOs which stated that “Almost no one sees their businesses significantly weakened by the COVID-19 crisis looking out 6-months, and most CEOs expect to be 'normal' or 'stronger than before' in this timeframe”. How is this so? What does it mean for you? Most importantly, what should you do?
Podcast Episode 14 - Where Did all the Tesla Profits Go?
The Growth Whisperers is a weekly podcast hosted by Brad Giles and Kevin Lawrence two advisors to mid-market businesses, one Australian, one Canadian, who each work with CEOs and Leadership Teams across the world with a mission to build enduring, great companies. Each weekly episode covers interesting situations and questions from the world of strategic planning, leadership development, talent and hiring in high growth entrepreneurial companies where real results matter.
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Tesla overtaking Toyota to be the most valuable carmaker - Kevin & Brad discuss how Toyota, who sells 30 times more cars compared to Tesla, can be less valuable, and why it actually makes so much sense.
Where did all the Tesla profits go? - What happens when profit should be there, but isn’t? Brad and Kevin talk about why companies fail to achieve the profit they should, how to recover the profit that should be there, and what are the key things they watch with growth companies.
Podcast Episode 13 - Apple Privacy, How Leaders Become Great
The Growth Whisperers is a weekly podcast hosted by Brad Giles and Kevin Lawrence two advisors to mid-market businesses, one Australian, one Canadian, who each work with CEOs and Leadership Teams across the world with a mission to build enduring, great companies. Each weekly episode covers interesting situations and questions from the world of strategic planning, leadership development, talent and hiring in high growth entrepreneurial companies where real results matter.
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Apple Privacy - Last week Apple released iOS14, their new operating system which includes a new prominent privacy feature where users are asked whether they want to allow an app to track them across other apps and websites. Brad and Kevin discuss the Apple strategy around privacy and how this could disrupt the $80 Billion digital marketing industry by preventing mobile marketers attributing ad spend.
How Leaders Become Great - Many people want to become leaders and get the corner office, the title, the compensation and the power. Kevin and Brad talk about how the best leaders get there, how they think, and how they build their teams.
Podcast Episode 12 - NBA Leveraging Technology, COVID Safety policies, When A players don’t grow with the business
The Growth Whisperers is a weekly podcast hosted by Brad Giles and Kevin Lawrence two advisors to mid-market businesses, one Australian, one Canadian, who each work with CEOs and Leadership Teams across the world with a mission to build enduring, great companies. Each weekly episode covers interesting situations and questions from the world of strategic planning, leadership development, talent and hiring in high growth entrepreneurial companies where real results matter.
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NBA leveraging technology to help get back to play - Brad and Kevin discuss how the National Basketball Association is starting to play again using smart, wearable technology, and how you might be able to use this approach to safely restart your business.
Dealing with COVID safety policies - The Growth Whisperers discuss how COVID policies can be executed in ways that create dramatically good or bad customer experiences.
When A players don’t grow with the business - Kevin and Brad talk about what to do when the business outgrows a team member that was once an A player.