E54 - James Timpson: How generosity leads to wealth
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
James Timpson is the CEO of Timpson, a business that has been in his family for over 150 years. James helped grow Timpson to over 2100 shops, and developed several innovative ways to run the business at a time when traditional High Street retailing has suffered.
The key to the growth of the business has been the culture that James has pioneered, based on trust and kindness. Employee benefits such as free holiday homes, a Dreams Come True scheme, weekly Lotteries and mental health support has ensured Timpson has been one of the UK’s best companies to work.
James pioneered the recruitment of ex-offenders, to the extent that Timpson now employs over 600 prison leavers (this is over 10% of the Company).
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome along to another episode of the High Performance Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Like I say this a lot, but honestly please understand when I say that the conversation |
| 0:10.2 | you're going to hear today is with a man who has become one of my heroes and you very |
| 0:15.0 | little about him and you very little about his business. |
| 0:17.6 | But the way that he operates is the way that I want the whole world to operate. |
| 0:22.2 | So please stay exactly where you are and get ready for a wonderful episode of the High |
| 0:27.1 | Performance Podcast this week. |
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| 0:37.4 | We've had an amazing number of downloads and listens and subscribes just recently. |
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| 1:07.6 | Okay, let's do it then. |
| 1:09.4 | I'm so excited for you to hear this episode. |
| 1:12.7 | It's an episode with empathy, love and kindness at the absolute centre of it. |
| 1:17.7 | So let's get to it. |
| 1:18.7 | It's time for this week's High Performance Podcast. |
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