477: Steve Holmes - Finding Your Purpose (Ikigai), Bouncing Back From Failure, & Using Your Working Genius

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Ryan Hawk

Business, Management, Careers

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Steve Holmes founded Springfree Trampoline in 2003 and has overseen its growth to almost 400 employees globally. He is responsible for strategic business development and leads growth initiatives worldwide. Springfree® Trampoline, the World's Safest Trampoline™, was introduced in 2003, and available in Australia in 2004. Dr. Keith Alexander re-designed the trampoline from the ground up to invent Springfree Trampoline, over fifteen years of research and development.

Notes:

"I hope that customers describe Springfree as a company which has integrity, honesty, great character, and deals with its customers in a way that values their experience with the brand and the product, and delivers on the promises they make.
Living in the tension of competing priorities. This is the job of the leader. It's happening at all times both at work and at home. We must be aware of and understand how to live in that tension.
Your working genius - Jim has learned that his sense of wonder and invention is what brings him the most joy. We have to know what lights us up in order to sustain excellence over time.
Responding to losing the Costco account. Steve called the Jim Sinegal and worked out how the relationship would end and then immediately planned for the future to keep his company in business.
"The greatest piece of marketing is our customers."
How to find your purpose: Ikigai is a Japanese concept that means your 'reason for being. ' 'Iki' in Japanese means 'life,' and 'gai' describes value or worth. Your ikigai is your life purpose or your bliss. It's what brings you joy and inspires you to get out of bed every day.
Life is about giving so that others will benefit.
The C's of business
- Clarity
- Competency
- Confidence
- Choice
"The pace of change is faster than the pace of learning."
Sustained excellence:
- Humble
- Hungry
- Smart
As the leader, you must create an environment where people want to learn

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Learning Leaders Show, presented by Insight Global. I am your host, Brian
0:10.7	Hawk. Thank you so much for being here. Text, Hawk, to 66866. Become part of Mindful Monday.
0:21.0	You along with tens of thousands of other learning leaders from all over the world will
0:26.1	receive a carefully curated email from me each Monday morning to help you start your
0:32.2	week off right. You'll also receive tales about how my book, The Pursuit of Excellence,
0:39.0	will help you become a more effective leader. Text, Hawk, to 66866. Now on to tonight's
0:47.5	featured leader, Steve Holmes founded Spring Free Trampoline in 2003 and has overseeing its
0:56.5	growth to almost 400 employees globally. He is responsible for strategic business development
1:04.0	and leads growth initiatives worldwide. He's an actual operator in the thick of it each day.
1:12.6	A few of the topics we discuss the six seeds to build an excellent business and how to respond
1:21.3	when you lose your largest client, which Steve did his Costco, and then how to build a world
1:29.0	class customer experience in both the B2B and B2C worlds. And then Steve shares the must-have
1:37.4	leadership qualities to get hired working for his team. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Steve Holmes.
1:47.8	All right, here we go, Steve. It's so great to have you on a learning leader show. Welcome, man.
1:52.5	Well, it's great to be here. Thank you. And I'm humble. I'm at the opportunity to listen to your
1:58.7	fast guests and it was like, okay, I'm not sure where I fitted here. Well, I love some of the
2:05.7	pre-recording chat and you're showing me your leadership Bible with clippings that go back
2:12.4	decades, which blows my mind. And so I'm going to start at a place that is so important to me,
2:21.9	and that is sustaining excellence. And when you leaf through that Bible, these clippings that
2:29.4	you've put together over the years, and you're obviously your current operator as well,
2:34.7	you're doing this. And we're going to get to that. What have you found to be some of the
2:39.9	commonalities among leaders who have sustained excellence over an extended period of time?
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