This Week With Sabir
I was invited to appear live on the audio and video podcast ‘This Week With Sabir’ hosted by Sabir Semerkant, the author of ‘Rocketship to the Moon’, guest lecturer at Harvard Business School and strategist for Matt Higgins, from the US show ‘Shark Tank’.
Over an hour we discussed a whole myriad of business issues including the lessons learnt from three of my most recent clients, along with many of the issues facing SME business owners today. Give it a watch or a listen.
You can also listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify.
If you ant to skip to the sections that you’d like to listen to see below;
2.30 – The cultural differences between US and UK entrepreneurial mindsets (learning from business failure, entrepreneurial spirit, coaching & mentoring)
4.45 – The Office, Dragons Den and Ramsey’s kitchen nightmares
8.30 – Education and coaching mindset
10.30 – Government support for entrepreneurship and the difficulties finding it
12.30 – The main challenges to UK SMEs and “what does this situation allow me to do?”
17.00 – Brexit and issues its causing for SMEs
22.30 – The challenges facing service-based industries
24.00 – Let’s discuss three case studies (introduction)
25.20 – What is a Business Sounding Board?
28.10 – Case Study #1
30.00 – The book-keeper story and opportunity cost
31.30 – Pizza maker to restaurant chain owner
34.45 – Simplification, and focusing on what you are good at
36.00 – Read The E-myth
36.30 – Case Study #2
42.30 – Creating a culture of internal feedback
45.00 – Case Study #3
51.30 – The problems of over-expansion
55.30 – Documenting systems and processes
57.30 – The £100,000 question
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