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Recharge on Air with Alan Hargreaves

Alan Hargreavesalanhargreaves.com
Take 5 minutes with Alan Hargreaves to step outside your business model, your career or your startup idea and check that you've got all bases covered. Are you optimising what you've got? Growth, in both business and life, is about momentum. This podcast will help you maintain it.
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Episodes

So, what were you worried about?

A lot of the big issues that affect our lives are way beyond our control. Attempts to forecast the outcome of global events is futile. Rather than worry about them, you need to get on with your job in front of you. Find out more at http://alanhargreaves.com

Mar 10, 20145 min

How to keep agile

Rapid change is now a constant in the business environment and you need to be highly flexible to cope. What can you do to stay agile? Find out more at http://alanhargreaves.com

Mar 06, 20145 min

Entrepreneurial Disorders

Do all entrepreneurs have psychological disorders. One common view of startup entrepreneurs is that they are somehow weird. Why is that? We need to look beyond the negative view of the word 'disorder'.

Feb 24, 20145 min

Setting realistic goals

Rapid growth is a great goal but overreaching can be counter productive. If you want to grow a sound, sustainable business, set goals that are a stretch but not impossible.

Feb 17, 20144 min

Getting Lucky

Business success often seems random. How can you increase your exposure to lucky breaks?

Feb 10, 20144 min

On being a leader some of the time

There are several common element to the worst decisions I've made. A central one is not asking for help when I don't really know what I'm doing. You can avoid a lot of disasters just by accepting that some people do some things better than you. The art of management and the art of delegation are closely related.

Feb 06, 20144 min

Intuition: Co-worker or Curse

Just how bankable is intuition? Often it's the way to go, often it's not. Alan looks at ways to assess whether or not you should back your hunches.

Feb 03, 20144 min

Why less information is better

Too much information can take our eye off the main game. Whether it's investing in stocks, managing a business or running your life, stepping back and looking at the big picture can be more rewarding than diving too deeply into the detail.

Jan 30, 20144 min

Getting results from negotiations

Negotiations never go exactly to plan. Often they are scary and confronting. But just as often their outcomes are pleasantly surprising.

Jan 23, 20145 min

Disruptive Strategies

There is nothing new about the term "disruption". Business have been coming and going for hundreds of years. What is it that makes some new startups so disruptive that even major corporations are destabilised by them.

Jan 16, 20145 min

Introverts can be good at selling too

The ability to maintain a good sales record isn't confined to extroverted people. Often they are more erratic. The strengths of more introverted styles often form the backbone of a solid sales team.

Jan 09, 20144 min

Nobody Knows

We get a barrage of forecasts and predictions from commentators and advisers. But if we actually bother to check, most of them are wrong. How should we cope the distraction of these people who seem to know everything?

Jan 02, 20145 min
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