The Roundtable Rethink Podcast

Our Top 15 Business Lessons From 90 Years In Business

Stephen Vallance, Paddy Donnelly, Andy Donnelly Episode 15

This week, we put a bow on our 5-week entrepreneurial breakdown by revealing our top 15 lessons learned from a combined 90 years in business.

We discuss the following topics...

  • Most things don't matter, and a few things matter a lot
  • Big things take time
  • Everything is a product/service problem
  • Simple scales and fancy fails
  • Beware of the managerial class
  • Consistency beats complexity
  • Be unbullshitable
  • Reputation is the ultimate deal lubricant
  • Proximity to power matters
  • Focus is a superpower
  • Hard decisions, easy life
  • Be greedy, be lazy
  • Understand the price of choices
  • If you can't be with the one you love, then love the one you're with 
  • Lose the emotion, trust the gut and let logic rule all

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