How to accelerate business growth blog
Blog
This a collection of articles, videos, interviews and podcasts about agency leadership, entrepreneurship, how to scale your agency, agency management insights and M&A advice. Sign up here
if you’d like to be notified when new content appears.
If you’re interested in Artificial Intelligence hallucinations or generative AI in the advertising industry visit hallucineer.com, or if you want an AI-generated list of the best AI tools for agencies, visit this site.
The non-exec chairman advantage
I write answers on Quora.com about entrepreneurship, growth strategy and how to start and build agencies. I've done a lot of it myself – like you, I spent many years ... Continue...
A seriously good book, for once
As some of you know as the result of a speed reading course (see here) I did a few years ago I've read a huge number of absolutely dreadful business ... Continue...
How to use perspective to maximise sale value
I had a great meeting today with one of my M&A friends, who specialises, as I do, in maximising the value owners get when they sell their agencies. His firm ... Continue...
A careers talk for Parliamentary interns
At the end of June I was invited to give a Masterclass for interns on the Speaker's Scheme in Parliament. Here are the notes I wrote for the talk. My name ... Continue...
Is Holacracy Finally Dead?
For the past two years, Silicon Valley has been buzzing about a trendy, innovative system of management called Holacracy. Holacracy’s central tenet is that letting employees make their own decisions ... Continue...
Undermining Hierarchy? The Future of Organisational Structure
In 1994 it became apparent that the world-wide web would remove salespeople from the process of transaction. If the way we do business was being redesigned, then the idea of ... Continue...
What’s the best unique selling point for a digital marketing agency?
I wrote this answer in response to a question on Quora. Clarity is critical: it also requires a degree of courage. Jim Collins's best seller, Good To Great, describes something he calls ... Continue...
Pitsurfing and highly effective people
After almost a year’s break, I have recently been doing a lot of (high value, obvs) consulting work for a few really ambitious agency owners in London. Having had plenty ... Continue...
Innovation for Jobs (i4j) at the House of Lords
Last Thursday I was excited to be part of the i4j Forum, the organisation chaired by Vint Cerf (one of the fathers of the internet and Vice President of Google) ... Continue...
