BITESIZE #78 | Ben Francis: The values that defined the culture at Gymshark
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🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this week's bitesize lesson from the archive we jump back to episode 69 with the founder and CEO of leading fitness brand Gymshark, Ben Francis.
We asked Ben to define the values which he enshrines within his business. His answer was compelling, illuminating and inspiring.
For the full episode with Ben Francis - listen or watch: https://www.thehighperformancepodcast.com/podcast/benfrancis
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| 0:58.0 | High Performance Podcast. This is drawing on a conversation that we had with the founder of Jim |
| 1:02.8 | Shark, Ben Francis. This was episode 69 of the High Performance Podcast. If you want to find it, |
| 1:08.4 | then you can go straight there. But we've had so many conversations with leaders on this podcast, |
| 1:13.2 | and we've thought long and hard about leadership, about what makes the best kind of leadership. |
| 1:17.2 | And I think myself and Professor Damien Hughes, who identified the fact that perhaps the best |
| 1:22.2 | leaders are actually the reluctant leaders. Maybe for too long, the people that were either being |
| 1:27.6 | pushed to the front or were making sure they got to the front were the ones who were the loudest, |
| 1:31.9 | were the ones who made their opinion heard, were the ones who, to everyone else, seemed passionate |
| 1:36.8 | and driven and keen. Well, maybe the best leaders, other leaders who are not actually the |
| 1:42.8 | the loud ones, who are actually the reluctant leaders. Because I think people who are reluctant |
| 1:47.5 | leaders end up becoming leaders based on their actions, not based on their words, |
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