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Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse

Monkhouse & Company

Wide awake at 3am, wondering how your business turned from a 15-person rocket into an 80-person rollercoaster? Hit play. This show is for founder CEOs who want practical wins, not platitudes. Every fortnight, Dominic Monkhouse - who scaled two UK tech firms to £30m+ in five years (twice) - grills people who’ve actually done it: operators, battle-scarred founders, and experts who cut through noise. You’ll learn techniques that stop fires, speed up decisions, and give you time back. What you’ll get:

business entrepreneurship

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E174 | The Habit of Excellence with Lieutenant...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/12/14

The British Army is renowned for its outstanding leadership, and command and control. But what do they know about psychological safety? These are just a few of the many topics that come up in the conversation with Lieutenant Colonel Langley Sharp MBE, who heads up the Centre for Army Leadership. This is a unit that has, over the last five years, codified what leadership means in the British Army, and how to develop leaders within the Army. What are some of the principles of leadership in the Army

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53:54

E173 | There’s a hole in your Bucket with Bryony Thomas

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/12/07

This episode of The Melting Pot is actually a recorded webinar we held called ‘There’s a hole in your Bucket’ with Watertight marketing methodology creator, Bryony Thomas. Bryony cut her teeth as Divisional Director of Marketing for Experian before leaving to found her own company in 2008. She took everything she’d learned from doing business development i.e. getting on the phone and doing sales, and joined it up to create the concept called Watertight. The idea behind Watertight is that there’s no

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46:45

E172 | Leadership, Growth Mindset and Learning from a...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/11/30

If you’re a leader and you don’t have a coach, then you’re missing a trick. Ian Windle is group chairman at Vistage, a global peer board organisation. He's also a TEDx speaker, executive coach, team builder, author, podcast host. In this latest episode of The Melting Pot, Ian talks about his obsession with leadership, developing leaders, and having a growth mindset. He discusses building high performing teams, what being in a peer organisation like Vistage or YPO, or EO is like, and the value you

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49:11

E171 | How To Become Replaceable with Ari Meisel

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/11/23

If you worry about being irreplaceable in your business, then don’t miss Ari Meisel, the productivity coach entrepreneur, founder of Less Doing, and author of The Replaceable Founder, who’s helped thousands of clients achieve the art of less doing - less work, more results, more happiness. At 23, Ari thought he knew it all. He wasn’t open to criticism, he wasn’t open to feedback. Ari was working really hard, 18 hours a day, believing that was the path to fulfilment. He was working in construction,

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43:07

E170 | The Power of Staying Curious with Michael...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/11/16

If you want to improve the managers in your business, says Michael Bungay Stanier, do more coaching. You might think coaching equals being soft, but you couldn’t be further from the truth. “When I'm asked to talk about my philosophy of coaching I've got two words, and the words are Fierce Love.”Michael wrote the book on coaching, literally. The Coaching Habit is the biggest book on coaching this century. He is the go-to guy for anything coaching related - his 7 questions format has revolutionised

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42:05

E169 | How to Build Psychological Safety in Your...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/11/09

If you want to be better at leading a team. If you want to know how to lead a good decision making process. Or how to engage and inspire people to bring their full self to work. If you want to improve the culture in your business, then don’t miss Amy Edmondson on this week’s episode of The Melting Pot. Amy hasn’t just written the book on psychological safety in the workplace, Fearless Organization, she’s a global expert in organisational development. She’s taught the topic to countless Harvard MBA

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E168 | Understanding Cash Flow and the Power of One...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/11/02

Do you understand cash flow? As in, do you really understand your cash flow, or are you just saying yes because you know you ought to?Alan Miltz, co-founder of Cash Flow Story and co-author of Scaling Up has made it his life mission to help business owners not just understand cash flow, but to use it to avoid growing broke. Alan’s idea, The Power of One, is that if you incrementally changed your business by 1% or 1 day changes, how long would it take you to achieve your desired financial results

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E167 | Finding Your Super North Star with Floyd Woodrow

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/10/26

If you’re looking for some inspiration to help you find your Super North Star, let Floyd Woodrow DCM MBE be your guide. Floyd is Managing Director and founder of Chrysalis Worldwide, a world-leading values-based organisation and owner of Quantum group. But as you may have guessed from his post-nominal letters he hasn’t always been a businessman. Floyd spent his formative years first in the Parachute Regiment before joining the Special Air Service at the age of 22, where he was awarded the

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E166 | How Metronomics can Help Grow your Business...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/10/19

If you’re wondering if there’s a silver bullet to help you grow your company and get you there with speed, ease and confidence, then don’t miss Shannon Byrne Susko discussing her latest book, Metronomics, in this episode. Shannon is a CEO and leadership team coach, bestselling business author, speaker, serial entrepreneur, and corporate director. She has distilled her extensive knowledge gained over 25 years at the helm of various companies, and coaching clients, into her new book Metronomics, a

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44:52

E165 | How The Rescue & Recovery Experts Can Save...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/10/12

Is your company in trouble? Is your business on the verge of going bust? Then don’t miss this week’s episode of The Melting Pot with business rescue and recovery experts, Rick Smith & Ben Westoby, from Forbes Burton. Ben and Rick work with companies that haven't quite gone bust, but are in trouble and need help. What’s fascinating is following the pandemic, you’d have thought that lots of businesses would have had to shut up shop for good. But actually, here in the UK we're running at about 40% or

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E164 | Finding a life rhythm with Nigel Bennett

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/10/08

Have you ever wanted to just put a pin in your life, upsticks and travel the world with your family before it’s too late? Well, that’s just what Nigel Bennett did. Nigel is an entrepreneur. Just not like any other entrepreneur we’ve had on the show. Where most people work hard, scaling up their business in order to sell it, Nigel, after taking mind altering drugs deep in the Amazon rainforest had an epiphany, and decided not to sell. That’s pretty much how this episode, re-broadcast from our

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48:37

E163 | Solving The World’s Consumer Goods...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/09/27

If you’ve ever suffered with your supply chain, then don’t miss Justin Floyd, founder and CEO of RedCloud, the startup looking to solve the distribution problem for B2B merchants and consumers outside of the Western world. They’ve already run a trial in Argentina, and put an e-commerce or a digital distribution platform, trading platform and finance platform in the hands of physical stores in Southeast Asia, South America and Africa. This is a truly fascinating conversation about Justin’s product

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45:42

E162 | How to Build an Effective Commercial Sales...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/09/21

If you’re wondering what you can do to improve your sales function, but you’re not a salesperson yourself, then don’t miss Steve Schrier on this episode of The Melting Pot. Steve knows sales. He’s been a salesman, he’s run sales, he’s consulted on selling. His focus isn’t on transactional one off sales, he sees sales as more deal making, consultative selling, doing deals in negotiating. In particular, as the business world moves towards an annual or monthly recurring revenue model with longer

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E161 | Why A Contrarian Could Help Your Business Grow...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/09/14

Is everything you know about business wrong? Alastair Dryburgh is a contrarian who taught himself to think differently so that he can help businesses that want to remaster themselves. For 10 years, Alastair penned a monthly column for Management Today titled, ‘everything you know about business is wrong’, which is why he’s the perfect guest for The Melting Pot. Because if your business is suffering and you can’t figure out what the problem is, maybe Alastair can help. Alastair is a recovering

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57:52

E160 | Innovating Your Business Model with Alex...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/09/07

“We bring all of the tools and methods into everything we do for the companies we work with. We call it technology enabled services. We help large companies like MasterCard, WL Gore, Nestle, and so on, reinvent themselves.”This is Alex Osterwalder, entrepreneur, author and co-founder of Strategyzer.com. Alex believes that innovation is what your business needs for longevity and success. He also believes that successful companies are those that compete at the level of business model, not just at the

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49:01

E159 | How to Improve your Sales Organisation with...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/08/31

Dom has spent most of his life in sales. He was a good sales guy, a terrible sales manager, a better sales director. When he got to the point where he knew he was playing to his strengths, it was because he’d spent years dialling 300+ times per day, he’d accrued 10,000 hours in sales. Today, he often helps clients think about or fix their sales organisation, particularly technology led businesses where the founder doesn't come from sales, and needs help understanding what their sales function might

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E158 | The Melting Pot Webinar: Simple Numbers with...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/08/24

This week we’re bringing you a special episode: a recording of one of our live webinars with Greg Crabtree, founder of accountancy firm, Crabtree, Rowe and Berger. Greg is exactly the type of person that we love to be able to bring you here on The Melting Pot. If you weren’t able to join us for the live chat, don’t panic, you haven’t missed out.Greg is author of The Simple Numbers, and is famous for cutting through jargon and making his theories accessible. He also co-wrote a chapter of Vern

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E157 | How Adolescent Businesses Can Get Out of the...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/08/17

Nick Cramp is a transformation coach and author. He challenges leaders to consider Better Before Bigger. In the past he’s been an e-myth coach, out of which came a book looking at how to build processes into your business, but now he’s written a new book, Better Before Bigger - Rethinking business success, where he shares how leaders can get out of the success trap. In this episode, Nick shares some guiding principles to help you rethink your business and how to define what success looks

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E156 | Scaling Up Expert Dominic Monkhouse on Sparks...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/08/10

In this special episode, the shoe is on the other foot as our illustrious host, Dominic Monkhouse, finds himself on the other side of the microphone, being questioned by long time friend and fellow coach, the brilliant podcast host, Phil Rose, of Sparks by Ignium. Dom and Phil have worked together for years and their conversation in this episode is jam packed full of advice that you can take away and put into practice in your business today. Of particular note is how Dom helps CEOs and business

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54:30

E155 | Strategic Advice from Appletree Answers...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2021/08/03

Today’s guest knows all about scaling up. Not only is John Ratliff CEO of Scaling Up Coaches, he’s also a seasoned entrepreneur himself. Having started Appletree Answers, a telephone answering service from his apartment in 1995, John grew the company to 24 US-based locations and more than 600 employees, taking nearly 10 years to get to $1million in revenue, and then six years to get to $30 million, before a fantastic exit well over market value, selling the company to a strategic buyer in 2012. This

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