Strategies & people to power growth
Breaking America: A quick guide for British businesses
Sixty years ago, The Beatles set the standard for making it big in America, where for several years people couldn’t get enough of Brand Britain.
UK businesses have historically struggled to replicate this success, but there are some notable exceptions, such as Gymshark, Graze, Charles Tyrwhitt and AU Vodka.
In this week’s blog, we look at what it takes to make waves in the vast US market.
Companies and prioritising sales and operations over tech and marketing. It’s a wise strategy
Open the business pages of a newspaper – or rather,? a news app – and you’d be forgiven for thinking the biggest priority facing business today is tech and AI.
But talk to CEOs about their executive search priorities, and you’ll hear a different story.
With macroeconomic conditions as they are, companies are looking increasingly to hire core commercial and operational talent, but as we explore this week, they’re finding it hard to come by.?
How to get perspective (without quitting your day job)
Candidates for senior roles often talk about being detail-oriented as well as being big-picture, strategic thinkers. They’re not having their cake and eating it: leadership requires both vision and execution, even if they are very different.
The real challenge is that operational work is almost always more urgent, leaving precious little time to focus on the big picture.
In this week’s blog, we look at ways to carve space for finding perspective, as part of your day job, rather than outside of it.