Business Growth Archives

Jeff Immelt – The Hotseat: Leading GE through controversy and crisis

What does it take to face your critics? I mean squarely, unflinchingly – with full self-responsibility. However, and this part is all important, still willing to defend yourself when it counts? Responsibility is an interesting word. I always understood it to mean ‘the ability to respond’. Taking full ownership of ...

Nathan Chan – The Foundr journey: Passion, momentum and creating your own MBA

If I asked you to create your own MBA – specifically tailored to you and your life, goals, challenges and questions – what would be in it? What would the modules be? Next question, who would teach it? If you could choose any name on the planet, who would you ...

POWERCUT: Guy Kawasaki on missions, mantras and nailing the pitch

We are coming to the end of another eventful year, another 12 month bundle of opportunities, challenges, plenty of highlights and some definite unforeseen low lights. Hopefully you are about to embark on a well-deserved break. This is exactly what the inside influence team and myself will be doing. So ...

Thomas Kolster – The Hero Trap: Why purpose is done and what’s coming next

How do you feel about the word purpose? Does it light you up, make you feel aligned and on fire to make a difference? Or does it leave you feeling a little disconnected and wanting to change the subject? For me, I’ve always been in the latter camp. I’ve always ...

Dorie Clark – The Long Game: How to think long-term in a short-term world

Does long-term thinking even matter in a world where the rules constantly change? For many of us (myself included) the pandemic has been a tough opportunity to look at the long-term future of our careers and business models. An invitation to step away from the next fire that’s burning. The ...

Guy Kawasaki – The Art of Evangelism: Mastery, mantras and nailing the pitch

Is your elevator pitch letting you down? The world is full of the “best” and “revolutionary” so how can you make your product or company cut through? On today’s Inside Influence Podcast episode, we talk to the former chief evangelist at Apple and current chief evangelist for Canva Guy Kawasaki about how to ...