A Busy Week... Shaving, Bonds, Young People, Awards, Just another week in the King of Careers!

I probably turn down 3-4 speaking engagements each week, but do - where possible - try to bring to a wider world some of my learnings, successes & failures at King of Shaves.  With both my parents being teachers, I try to work (where possible) with a young audience, or in other cases - on strategic issues I believe to be important and relevant to anyone starting up, or in business in the UK.

Running a product based business, I am increasingly making fewer, larger & more strategic decisions - and am also able to spend time looking at our NPD flow for the next 2-5 years (NPD = New Product Design).  I've been reading Steve Jobs' biography - which has been fantastic - as the way we work on 'New' seems to complement the way Steve Jobs' & Jony Ive worked on 'New' too.  Although we're smaller (way smaller) our opportunities are equally as compelling as theirs were.

Last Monday, I keynoted for the Bucks Enterprise Festival sponsored by Wycombe District Council & Bucks New University; the next few days see me:

1. Monday, talking at a breakfast meeting on SME Bonds courtesy NESTA, along with the CEO of the London Stock Exchange details here followed by interviews.
2. Tuesday, talking to 200 students in Norwich at their Futures Event in the morning.
3. Wednesday, keynoting at the Shell LIVEWIRE 'Live' Young Entrepreneur day.
4. Thursday, keynoting at the 'Art of... Communication' conference at the Sage, Gateshead

and the following week, along with two board meetings, I'm giving 2 presentations at the Business Startup Show at Earls Court and on Friday, having a 'lunch with advice' for a top entrepreneur, which a leading business magazine is covering.  Oh, and on the Monday I'm at the Growing Business Awards in the evening (King of Shaves won this a couple years ago).

People may think 'so who's running King of Shaves' - well - being #OnTheGrid is so easy these days, as long as my core management team are on top of their game, I can be top of mine - spreading the Word of Mouth about our company, vision & mission in a new #WorldOfMouse fashion

Maybe I'll see YOU in one of the audiences?  I hope so!

Comments

[James Blackman]

I saw you on Thursday at the Business Startup show and your presentation was very interesting and very inspiring. Petty the PA system kept cutting out :o). P.S your shaving lotion is amazing always get a nice clean shave...