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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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E120 | Being A Black Woman In Tech With Flavilla Fongang

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/12/01

If you’re struggling to get customers for your business, then Flavilla Fongang, the effervescent managing director and founder of 3 Colours Rule, an award-winning creative branding and neuromarketing agency, has written a book 99 Strategies To Get Customers. In today’s fantastic conversation, Flavilla talks about some of her favourite strategies from the book, so grab a pen and paper and take note of how to get the most out of your business. But Flavilla isn’t someone who has just one plate spinning

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2020 Summit Special: Positive leadership for post...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/11/27

It was an absolute pleasure to have, world-renowned business growth guru and author of best-selling books, The Rockefeller Habits and Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't, at the Summit at Foundry Farm. He joined Dominic Monkhouse for a discussion of the latest trends he has noticed in scaling businesses and leadership teams. Verne’s talk at the Summit feels very timely. It was recorded back when the sun was still shining in September and when a “second wave” was on the

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E119 | The Theory Of Constraints with Andy Watt

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/11/24

Eli Goldratt wrote a book called The Goal, which Verne Harnish has described as one of the most important business books ever written. With such an accolade, we had to have Andy Watt, MD of Goldratt, on the show. Andy is a founding member of the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organisation (TOCICO) and a Chartered Fellow of CILT (Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport). He’s also the owner and driving force behind Goldratt UK, and he has the singular aim of increasing the

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E118 | The Mechanics of Employee Ownership Trusts...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/11/17

What do you do if you want to keep your business going after you exit? What processes can you put in place to ensure your business survives without you? How can you extract maximum value from your life’s work?Chris Budd is the founder and former CEO of Ovation Finance. He is also one of the UK’s foremost experts in selling your business to an employee ownership trust. Why is he an expert in this? Because this is the route he chose to exit his own business. “What I wanted, which, at its essence, was

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E117 | How To Do Disruptive Innovation with Tendayi Viki

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/11/10

If you’re wondering how you can find time from everyday business operations to do innovation, today’s guest, Tendayi Viki, is the guy you want to listen to. He’s an award winning author and corporate innovation expert. He’s also been recognised by Thinkers50 as one of the world's foremost business strategic thinkers, and he’s the author of three books, the latest of which is Pirates In The Navy. Tendayi’s biggest bugbear is innovation theatre, those companies that look like they’re doing innovation,

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E116 | Creating A Category With The Godfather of...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/11/03

If you want a point of difference with your company, if you want to be more Apple than Blackberry, then don’t miss this week’s episode of The Melting Pot with the Godfather of Category Design, Christopher Lochhead. He self-describes as a dyslexic paperboy who got thrown out of school at 18 and with few other options he started a company. Now, Christopher is a #1 Apple Business Podcaster and #1 Amazon Marketing author. He has been an advisor to over 50 venture-backed startups, is a venture capital

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E115 | Making Business More Human with Hilary Corna

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/10/27

Do you know what your company’s nine touch points are? The things that are the most important to your clients? Could you say, off the top of your head, what is most important to your customers pre-sale, during the sales process and after sale?Do you even have touch points that are so remarkable that people continue to talk about you long after the engagement?Meet Hilary Corna, author, speaker and CEO of coaching consulting business, Corna Partners. Hilary is on a mission to humanise business. She

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E114 | Overcoming Adversity And Learning To Think...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/10/20

In November 2013, Alex Lewis was rushed to hospital with just 30 minutes to live. He was 33 years old. Leading up to his hospital admittance, he’d been suffering with a cold and a sore throat. Within hours of being admitted to hospital he was on full life support and was given less than 3% chance of survival. What had brought this otherwise healthy man to his knees? Strep A, Toxic Shock Syndrome, Septicaemia and Necrotising Fasciitis. In order to survive, Alex needed a quadruple amputation,

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E113 | Amplifying Your Content with Beck Power

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/10/13

If you have bucket loads of content that you regularly share with your audience across your social media platforms, but it’s not getting any traction, or if you don’t have content and you need some, then you need Beck Power. Beck is the queen of repurposing existing content to keep you front of mind for your audience. Today’s conversation isn’t about how to be globally strategic with an author, this is a tactical how-to conversation with somebody who enables others.So if you’re wondering how, in the

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E112 | How WD 40 Company Is Making Life Better with...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/10/06

Everyone’s heard of WD 40 company, it’s been a dependable staple of every garage and DIYer for over 50 years. The distinctive blue can with its yellow label and red cap has been oiling and lubricating homes across the globe for half a century, creating memories and lasting relationships. But it isn’t the spread of this product that CEO and chair of WD 40 company board, Garry Ridge, is renowned for. Yes, when Garry took over as CEO he transformed the business from an American manufacturer of WD 40,

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45:06

E111 | How To Be More Pirate with Sam Conniff and...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/09/29

What did Steve Jobs and Blackbeard have in common? According to Sam Conniff, they were both pirates. Why would Sam know this? Because he wrote the bestselling book - Be More Pirate in 2018, and was amazed when it inspired a global movement. From Tate & Lyle to Mercedes Benz, financiers to farmers, CEOs to students, some of the biggest brands around the world, including our very own NHS, have taken heed of Sam’s message, created a pirate crew and rewritten the existing rules. Because that is what

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E110 | How To Change Your Company Culture with...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/09/22

If your company culture could do with an overhaul, then who better to impart advice on this very topic than the culture transformer guru with a track record of making workplaces better, Siobhán McHale?“We've got to move beyond the framing of culture purely in employee experience terms. It’s about how to create more agile, innovative, and commercial cultures that can be sustainable over time.”Siobhán has worked across 4 continents helping thousands of leaders create more agile and productive

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E109 | How To Use Open Innovation In The Corporate...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/09/15

What would you do if you’ve sold your company for enough money to live comfortably for the rest of your life - sail the Caribbean? Or start over. Today’s guest, Jonty Slater, Manager Director at Blue Globe Innovation is in the latter camp. Jonty decided to create a business and to give back at the same time. Blue Globe Innovation is like no other company, it’s an organisation that solves amazingly complex technical challenges for companies, governments and NGOs. Blue Globe Innovation runs open

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E108 | The Power of Staying Curious with Michael...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/09/08

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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E107 | Taking Charge By Letting Go with L. David Marquet

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/09/01

“The journey of leadership is a journey to irrelevance. It has to be. Otherwise you're just a do-er, you're an individual contributor like everybody else.”The problem with military command is that when you say ‘jump’, your subordinates are supposed to say ‘how high?’, regardless of the danger or the stupidity of the order. L. David Marquet realised there was something fundamentally wrong with this form of blind leadership when he took command of the USS Santa Fe, the US Navy’s submarine with the

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E106 | How To Be Radically Candid with Kim Scott

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/08/25

How do you give difficult, impactful feedback in your workplace without offending anyone or being misconstrued?“Pause, right now, and think about that moment in your career when someone told you something that stung a bit at the time, but stood you in good stead for the next 10 years. That is radical candour.”If you just do one thing this week, listen to Kim Scott, co-creator of an executive education company and workplace comedy series based on her best-selling book Radical Candor - Be A Kick Ass

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E105 | Modernising The Death Industry with Dan Garrett

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/08/18

Death is such an unusual, fascinating, and emotional area to work in, however the industry hasn’t evolved much since the 1850s. But today’s guest, Dan Garrett, CEO and co-founder at Farewill, is on a mission to change that - to bring wills, probate and funerals into the 21st century. “[Will writing] is the most amazing industry because it's basically the biggest consumer industry that's been untouched by technology. It’s a multi-hundred billion dollar business globally. The industry looks and feels

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E104 | Unleashed, Hiring Diversely And The Truth...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/08/11

Leadership isn’t about you, says Frances Frei, co-author of Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You. Leadership, according to Frances, Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School, depends on how well you unleash the potential of other people. Frances has not only carried out extensive research investigating how leaders create the conditions for organisations and individuals to thrive. She also regularly advises senior executives

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E103 | Why Branding Is Sex and Creating Irrational...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/08/04

What’s your business aim? To achieve growth? To create a winning corporate culture? Deb Gabor, keynote speaker and bestselling author is on a mission to inspire 1 million brands to create irrational loyalty. Yes, that’s also the name of her latest book, Irrational Loyalty, but the premise behind it should strike a chord with anyone who owns a business - not least because the subtitle is - Building a Brand That Thrives In Turbulent Times. And times don’t get much more turbulent than the ones we are

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E102 | Why Pricing Is Not Primarily About Price with...

Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse ·

2020/07/28

If you have a fear of pricing, or if you’re worried that if you put your prices up you’ll lose customers, then you need to listen to the Pricing Man, Hermann Simon, author of over 35 books on the subjects of profit and pricing. “Pricing is about value, or more precisely, the value perceived by the customers. If the customer perceives a high value, he or she is willing to pay a high price. If the perceived value is lower, you have to offer the product at a lower price.”Hermann Simon has lived two

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