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Should you tell your team that you're planning to exit?
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Aim for The Holy Grail: 100000 per head revenue...
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You need a better work life balance...
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Work on the business not in the business...
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Get the wrong people off the bus...
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Get the right people on the bus...
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Never hire ahead of the curve...
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Culture eats strategy for breafkast...
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Hire slow, fire fast...
Featured contributors
Mark Ritson
Founder @ Marketing Week MiniMBA & Marketing professor
"I regard fake it until you make it as kind of the 'good bullshit' for the most part"
Conrad Persons
Co-founder @ Mash (acquired by WPP)
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Should you tell your team that you're planning to exit?
"I think you can't go wrong with a degree of transparency"
Jess Saumarez
Founder @ Hedira (acquired by Subpod)
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Should you tell your team that you're planning to exit?
"Generally, I would recommend telling your employees that you're looking to exit"
Tristan Rice
Partner @ SI Partners (M&A experts)
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Should you tell your team that you're planning to exit?
"If you're talking about planning stages, I would say that's high-risk"
Chantell Glenville
Chief Operating Officer @ Strategiq
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Aim for The Holy Grail: 100000 revenue per head...
"I think it’s useful to have quick and easy benchmarks to refer to"
Jason Neale
Founder @ The Agency Works
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Aim for The Holy Grail: 100000 revenue per head...
"I think it’s a good measure to aim for; but can also create negativity in an agency"
Jinny Mitchell-Kent
COO @ Great State
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Aim for The Holy Grail: 100000 revenue per head...
"Work life balance first of all is just bullshit"
Ben Amanna
Founder @ Boxraw
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You need a better work life balance...
"Work life balance first of all is just bullshit"
Rebecca Brennan
COO @ Kyan
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You need a better work life balance...
"It’s quite an annoying phrase"
Dan Kelsall
Co-founder @ Offended Marketing
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You need a better work life balance...
"I always think this is a load of bollocks"
Dines
Co-founder @ Studio BLUP
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Work on the business, not in the business...
"I realised when I was working in the business we weren't evolving it as much"
Andrew Dobbie
Founder @ MadeBrave
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Work on the business, not in the business...
"It’s a great piece of advice, but it’s probably one of the hardest things to do as a business owner"
Simon Squibb
Founder @ The Purposeful Project & tiktok influencer
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Work on the business, not in the business...
"You can do both - if you’re a small business you need to do both"
Jenny Kitchen
Co-founder @ Yoyo Design
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Get the wrong people off the bus...
"It can be an effective guide but you shouldn't be blindly wedded to it"
Nitzan Regev-Sanders
Co-founder @ The Creative Copywriter
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Get the wrong people off the bus...
"It’s just a bit simplistic and misses a few steps"
Domenica Di Lieto
Founder @ Emerging Communications
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Get the wrong people off the bus...
"You need a team. Not just any team, the right team"
Becky Simms
Co-founder @ Reflect Digital
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Get the right people on the bus...
"Focus on roles first, then people"
Christopher Kenna
Founder @ Brand Advance Group
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Get the right people on the bus...
"Who's never caught that bus, because they don't know it exists?"
Neil Davidson
CEO @ HeyHuman
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Get the right people on the bus...
"I'm sick of this so-called advice with nothing behind it"
Rob Pierre
Co-founder @ Jellyfish
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Never hire ahead of the curve...
"If you want to stay small and lean, then that's good advice"
Vineeta Greenwood
Co-founder @ Wholegrain Digital
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Never hire ahead of the curve...
"It’s not clear which curve you are hiring ahead of"
Alex O'Byrne
Co-founder @ We Make Websites
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Never hire ahead of the curve...
"As with anything, it's not great to hire when you're desperate"
Nikki Gatenby
Non-Executive Director & Coach @ Superengaged
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Culture eats strategy for breakfast...
"Business was created by humans, not the other way around"
Josh Akapo
Co-founder @ archtype
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Culture eats strategy for breakfast...
"It's often hypocritical"
George Anders
Senior editor-at-large @ LinkedIn
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Culture eats strategy for breakfast...
"It's an especially useful caution for outsiders with a big change agenda"
Jeffrey J. Fox
Founder @ Fox Business Advisors
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Hire slow, fire fast...
"My advice is good advice"
Katy Howell
Founder @ Immediate Future
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Hire slow, fire fast...
"This is one of those sayings that sounds cute and clever, till you think about it"
Dino Myers-Lamptey
Founder @ The Barber Shop
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Hire slow, fire fast...
"People learn how to pass interviews"