Your key to business miracles
If you’re looking for a ‘shot in the arm’ Philip de Lisle is just what the doctor ordered! When you engage Philip you’ll be working with a multi-talented business-savvy mentor and facilitator, speaker and author. If you want a first rate brain, emotional strength and a creative and innovative approach to your business (and personal) challenges, you’ve found it.
“I’m a former serial entrepreneur with more than 7 startups. My last venture, exited in 2001, had a US$1.5billion valuation. Now I prefer to help other realise their dreams by sharing my knowledge and experience via mentoring, speaking and writing. This has become my passion.”
Discover how Philip can move you and your business into the fast lane as a mentor and/or facilitator, as a speaker at your event or conference, or explore his business acumen through his published material.
He can be your key to business miracles.
Lack of Ambition Hurts
Posted by Philip de Lisle on November 6th, 2008 filed in Business, Leadership
Are you a leader? Would you consider yourself ambitious for yourself and your organisation? Of course you are! Ambition is good. It drives us forward and stretches us so that take on new ideas and experiment. It makes us do things. It makes us grow as people and those benefits accrue to the company we [...]
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Leading in a Recession
Posted by Philip de Lisle on June 20th, 2008 filed in Business, Leadership
As I write this, the economic outlook for the UK (and Europe) is looking precarious to say the least. Although we are not currently in a recession, market conditions are tough with a credit squeeze, rocketing fuel and power prices, falling house prices and statements from the Bank of England and many leading retailers that [...]
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Slaying Dragons
Posted by Philip de Lisle on May 11th, 2008 filed in Business, Facilitation Tools
At some point in the distant past, a client was describing the problems he was having implementing a particularly tricky change policy on his company. While listening to him I realised that I’d been through this situation several times myself so we discussed what his options were to overcome objectors. Out of that discussion came [...]
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TEAM with Your Clients
Posted by Philip de Lisle on March 2nd, 2008 filed in Business
Working with a client recently, they mentioned that they had started to hold internal lunchtime meetings to discuss how they were delivering projects for clients. They called these ‘TEAM Meetings’. “why ‘TEAM’?” I asked thinking it stood for something, as it was all in capitals. Nobody was able to give me an answer which set [...]
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The Legacy of John Harvey-Jones
Posted by Philip de Lisle on February 6th, 2008 filed in Business, Mentoring
A great business leader, Sir John Harvey-Jones, died last month. For those who are not aware, he was a leading light in the UK business community since the early 1980′s when he rose to public prominence as the chairman of ICI, which he guided to be one of the most successful companies in the UK [...]
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What Makes an Effective Chairman of the Board?
Posted by Philip de Lisle on August 23rd, 2007 filed in Business, Mentoring
I was chatting recently with Dermot Hill of Intramezzo who posed this question. Given my experience as a Chairman and my love of this role, it set me thinking. Note that I’m going to use the word “Chairman” in a non-gender specific context in this article. Companies appoint a Chairman for a variety of reasons. [...]
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We Don’t Do Customer Service Anymore
Posted by Philip de Lisle on July 5th, 2007 filed in Business
Maybe it is just me, but shortly after posting about how pygmies are taking over the world, I had 2 really bad experiences of customer service from the same company. There is a well-known budget hotel chain here in the UK called Travelodge. I have used its various hotels frequently in the last year or [...]
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The Pygmies are Taking Over the World
Posted by Philip de Lisle on May 15th, 2007 filed in Business, Mentoring
As an entrepreneur, I have created many businesses. And these businesses need certain advisers like lawyers and accountants. Like many of you, these “species”, and I use the word advisedly, are not my most favourite people as they cost me lots of money and don’t appear to deliver much value. Recently I was with one [...]