In today’s episode I’m delighted to introduce Claire Colvin. Claire has worked as a partner to business leaders and entrepreneurs of high growth businesses helping them to scale through their people. As the former Talent Director on the Board of a rapidly growing global organisation, Claire built the optimum people centred structures and systems to enable the company to significantly scale across 6 continents. Prior to that, she spent almost 15 years with an award winning, technology SME, which operated in a highly competitive environment.    Finding great talent is the #1 reason why businesses are unable to scale. In 2019, Claire became my business partner and we set out on a journey of discovery to extensively research exemplars of scaling to identifying the key attributes that made them successful.    In today’s episode, Brendan and Claire talk about:  Their favourite moments from Season 3     The importance of developing others and ourselves   How diversity can bring diverse thinking and innovation to your business Why a crisis mentality in business can be a positive thing The importance of resilience The power of purpose The importance if of taking thinking time Key Takeaway “Creating a crisis mentality in business triggers and seeds a mindset that is open to change. I have found that we were at our most innovative during the Dotcom bubble, 911 and the Global Financial Crisis. Each of these events were a catalyst for innovation in our product set and in our processes and forced us to change. A crisis mentality ensures that you don’t keep doing what you have always done.” Contact Claire LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-colvin-586a162b/    The Simple Scaling Book Claire and I have co-authored a book for leaders of SMEs who are ambitious to scale. Centred around our 10 Principles of Scaling it will be published on the 15 March, 2022. If you would like to be notified of its release provide us with your email here. About the Host    Director and Founder of Simple Scaling, Brendan brings 25 years’ experience of scaling businesses. Previously, Brendan spent 16 years as a global business leader with CDE, 12 of those as Group MD, steering the company through the global financial crisis to considerable strategic growth success with offices now in 6 continents employing almost 700 people across the world (from 15) and 25X revenue growth.    Contact Brendan on LinkedIn - here    

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