The Growth Whisperers are 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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"Necessary Endings" is a self-help book written by Dr. Henry Cloud. It explores the concept of embracing and initiating endings in various aspects of life, such as relationships, careers, and personal growth, in order to create a positive and fulfilling future.
The book emphasises that endings are a natural part of life and are necessary for personal and professional growth.
While endings are a natural part of business and life, we often experience them with a sense of hesitation, sadness, resignation, or regret. But Dr. Henry Cloud sees endings differently. He argues that our personal and professional lives can only improve to the degree that we can see endings as a necessary and strategic step to something better. If we cannot see endings in a positive light and execute them well, he asserts, the "better" will never come either in business growth or our personal lives.
In this insightful and deeply empathetic book, Dr. Cloud demonstrates that, when executed well, "necessary endings" allow us to proactively correct the bad and the broken in our lives in order to make room for the professional and personal growth we seek. However, when endings are avoided or handled poorly—as is too often the case—good opportunities may be lost, and misery repeated. Drawing on years of experience as an executive coach and a psychologist, Dr. Cloud offers a mixture of advice and case studies to help readers
Know when to have realistic hope and when to execute a necessary ending in a business, or with an individual.
Identify which employees, projects, activities, and relationships are worth nurturing and which are not.
Overcome people's resistance to change and create change that works.
Create urgency and an action plan for what's important.
Stop wasting resources needed for the things that really matter.
Knowing when and how to let go when something, or someone, isn't working—a personal relationship, a job, or a business venture—is essential for happiness and success.
In this, the final episode of the Growth Whisperers podcast, we talk about the book necessary endings, our journey together, and why you should consider what endings are necessary in your life.
Thank you for listening, it's been an honour to help you. From Kevin and Brad.
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#84 The 7 common strategy mistakes from Michael Porter
#130 Jim Collins: Level 5 leaders
#104 The habits successful leaders use to prepare each week
#50 Jim Collins Flywheel Concept: How to build unstoppable momentum in your company
#96 The three main barriers to consistent growth
#90 Meeting Rhythm - The Annual Strategic Thinking meeting
#110 Five most common questions we get about Scaling Up
#89 The 4 different types of A players
#165 The top five reasons people regret selling their business
Saison 1 · Épisode 165
lundi 5 juin 2023 • Durée 30:27
There is an entire industry and philosophy surrounding why you should sell your business, but it doesn’t need to be that way. There are many reasons why people choose to sell their businesses and really the reasons can be broken down into two different things.
1. Long Term Goal To Exit: A strategic decision because their plan all along was to sell their business and they have something else more desirable to do with their time (besides golf).
2. Looking for an Exit strategy after losing faith. They hit a point of frustration or desperation and are no longer either enjoying the business or don’t believe they can get it to the next level.
The first point is a goal to exit, the second allows you to think it isn't going to get any easier, it might be better to sell. And there are a lot of people who will want you to sell. This means you can feel forced to exit.
In this episode we discuss the top 5 reasons people regret selling, and how you can consider different perspectives and opportunities.
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#164 Using the sandbox to stop dumb decisions in the leadership team
Saison 1 · Épisode 164
lundi 29 mai 2023 • Durée 24:58
Without effective discipline around decision making we can end up making decisions we later might call dumb. To avoid this one of the tools we use is the sandbox. Where we play.
Our sandbox is where we have proven that we can win and earn the right to be a viable option for our customers. And the principle helps us to keep sand in the box.
What we sell, Who we sell it to and where we sell it. Like any principle creates focus and guardrails for our thinking and decisions.
When going outside of these guardrails, we need to do it with extreme caution and this takes a lot of humility at times - especially when a business is doing really well.
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#163 Executive burnout: Building your resilience (2/2)
Saison 1 · Épisode 163
lundi 22 mai 2023 • Durée 25:45
Executives are often more driven than the average person. We run hard all the time, and it usually works. And then, it doesn't work.
We persist and push harder than the average person, and that's why we win. But it's also why we can crash harder and sometimes even put everything at risk.
This week we talk about executive burnout in the second of two episodes. What it means, what to look out for in both yourself and your team, and when it might be time to go get some help.
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#162 Executive Burnout: How do you know when you need to get some help? (1/2)
Saison 1 · Épisode 162
lundi 15 mai 2023 • Durée 31:28
Executives are often more driven than the average person. We run hard all the time, and it usually works. And then, it doesn't work.
We persist and push harder than the average person, and that's why we win. But it's also why we can crash harder and sometimes even put everything at risk.
This week we talk about executive burnout. What it means, what to look out for in both yourself and your team, and when it might be time to go get some help.
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#161 Rating your firm on Jim Collins 7 Good to Great principles (2/2)
Saison 1 · Épisode 161
lundi 8 mai 2023 • Durée 27:17
Jim Collins book Good to Great is one of the all-time business classics due to the size and quality of the research that underpins the principles that he identified in the research about companies that endured and achieved great performance, relative to their peer companies who only achieved good performance.
In Good to Great, Jim Collins identified seven core principles that great companies excelled at.
In this part two of two episodes, we dig into the seven principles from Good to Great and ask you to rate your firm's performance on each of these.
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#160 Rating your firm on Jim Collins 7 Good to Great principles (1/2)
Saison 1 · Épisode 160
lundi 1 mai 2023 • Durée 32:36
Jim Collins book Good to Great is one of the all-time business classics due to the size and quality of the research that underpins the principles that he identified in the research about companies that endured and achieved great performance, relative to their peer companies who only achieved good performance.
In Good to Great, Jim Collins identified seven core principles that great companies excelled at.
In this part one of two episodes, we dig into the seven principles from Good to Great and ask you to rate your firm's performance on each of these.
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#159 The most important number that CEOs rarely measure
Saison 1 · Épisode 159
lundi 24 avril 2023 • Durée 24:05
What if the most important number and predictor of long-term success was also a number that you didn't measure or even manage decisions based on it?
Unfortunately, it's a situation that is quite common today.
The accumulation of many seemingly small (and large) investment decisions that leaders make leads to the primary measure of a CEO - return on invested capital. How much capital has been invested in your business, and what's the return on that? Some of the most successful CEOs of all time have been primarily guided by this measure.
Ensuring that these decisions are well-considered and actually create high-impact results is where leaders should focus.
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#158 Living and working in your Sustainable Sweet Spot as a leader
Saison 1 · Épisode 158
lundi 17 avril 2023 • Durée 28:15
Some parts of your role give you energy, and some parts drain your energy. Often, the parts that drain your energy can be unsustainable. When you were younger, you probably had jobs that drained your energy, and you quit those jobs, getting better jobs over time. But that's often not possible if you're a business owner, CEO or executive.
Over time we want to give more time to things that give us energy and less time to those parts that drain energy. This way we're able to work hard and sustain our energy for the role. We would be tired at the end of the day, but our energy for the role would remain.
This week we talk about how to live and work in your Sustainable Sweet Spot as a leader.
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#157 Jim Collins: 6 characteristics of right people in the right seats
Saison 1 · Épisode 157
lundi 10 avril 2023 • Durée 27:26
How do you know if you have the right people in the right seats?
We’ve all heard of the phrase ‘get the right people in the right seats on the bus’. It talks about ensuring that team members are aligned and committed to success. However, Jim Collins has a very specific definition of the ‘right people’, and when you’re considering if you have the right people in the right seats, this includes six key characteristics that might help to understand what 'right' actually means.
This week we're going through Jim Collins' definition of the right people in the right seats.
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#22 Bringing a new leader or executive into a leadership team
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#84 The 7 common strategy mistakes from Michael Porter
#130 Jim Collins: Level 5 leaders
#104 The habits successful leaders use to prepare each week
#50 Jim Collins Flywheel Concept: How to build unstoppable momentum in your company
#96 The three main barriers to consistent growth
#90 Meeting Rhythm - The Annual Strategic Thinking meeting
#110 Five most common questions we get about Scaling Up
#89 The 4 different types of A players
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