Mark Zweig – Confessions of an entrepreneur who has led successful scaling businesses
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Show Notes
Mark is an Entrepreneur, Teacher, Writer, Speaker, and Vistage Chair. Mark started his entrepreneurial career early selling bicycles on the street corner of his childhood home at age eight or nine. He is the Founder of two Inc 500/5000 companies – Zweig Group (formerly Zweig White) and Mark Zweig, Inc. He built, sold, and bought back and resold his interest Zweig Group, a management consulting, publishing, media and training company founded in 1988. He built Mark Zweig, a design/ build/ contract/ development company which he founded in 2005.
Mark has also been an owner and investor in a number of other ventures and served on the BODs of a dozen or so privately held companies throughout the US. He has written more than a dozen books on management such as Management from A to Zweig, Management ideas that Work and Find the Lost Dollars. He also published the Zweig Letter, the leading management newsletter for the AE (architecture and engineering) industry for more than 28 years.
He is also an Executive in-residence teaching entrepreneurship at the Sam M. Walton College of the Business at the University of Arkansas.
In today's conversation we will explore:
- Confessions from an entrepreneur who has led successful scaling businesses
- The importance of creating a plan aligned to a vision
- Why marketing is critical for scaling and some ideas to inspire better marketing for your organisation
- How Mark motivated his colleagues by creating a fun culture
- The risk of having an organisation that's too formally structured
Quote
"You better have a purpose, or it will all become meaningless."
Contact Mark
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-schilling-2b4b5322/
Buy Mark's Books
Management From A to Zweig, Revised Edition
Link to book: mybook.to/managementfromAtoZweig
Look out for Mark's new book 'Confessions of an Entrepreneur'
Simple Scaling Book
Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business
About the Host
Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible. Over seventeen years, twelve as CEO of CDE Group, he helped the company achieve 25x revenue growth and become an industry leader. During his time as CEO the company delivered almost £500 million ($750 million) cumulative revenue and £50 million ($75 million) cumulative profit from more than 90 countries. The company also generated considerable cash reserves and became a revered leader in its industry.
Driven by his own desire to inspire, connect and enable ambitious leaders of SMEs to scale with purpose, he co-founded Simple Scaling with Claire Colvin with whom he co-authored Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x your business. Brendan also acts as a Non-Executive Director to CDE Asia (part of CDE Group). In 2016, he was awarded the Institute of Directors, UK Young Director of the Year and Overall, Director of the Year. Brendan is also a regular keynote speaker, the host of the popular ScaleX™ Insider Podcast and is also a Wim Hof Instructor.
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