Your Key to Business Miracles

image of Philip de LisleIf you’re looking for a ‘shot in the arm’ Philip de Lisle is just what the doctor ordered! When you engage Philip you’ll be working with a multi-talented business-savvy mentor and facilitator, speaker and author. If you want a first rate brain, emotional strength and a creative and innovative approach to your business (and personal) challenges, you’ve found it.

“I’m a former serial entrepreneur with more than 7 startups. I grew my last venture to a US$1.5billion valuation before exiting in 2001. Since then I’ve been helping others realise their dreams by sharing my knowledge and experience via mentoring, speaking and writing. This has become my passion.”

Discover how Philip can give you clarity and move your business into the fast lane as a mentor and coach and/or facilitator, as a speaker at your event or conference, or explore his business acumen through his published material.

He can be your key to business miracles.

The Legacy of John Harvey-Jones

A great business leader, Sir John Harvey-Jones, died last month. For those who are not aware, he was a leading light in the UK business community since the early 1980’s when he rose to public prominence as the chairman of ICI, which he guided to be one of the most successful companies in the UK if not the world.

But to most people in the UK he is best remembered as the star of the “Troubleshooter” television series where he Continue reading →

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What Makes an Effective Chairman of the Board?

I was chatting recently with Dermot Hill of Intramezzo who posed this question. Given my experience as a Chairman and my love of this role, it set me thinking. Note that I’m going to use the word “Chairman” in a non-gender specific context in this article.

Companies appoint a Chairman for a variety of reasons. If they are about to float, or are seeking external investment, they may pick someone who is acceptable to the “money men” and who has contacts in that arena rather than going for someone who can add real value to the companies proposition. But I suspect Continue reading →

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We Don’t Do Customer Service Anymore

Maybe it is just me, but shortly after posting about how pygmies are taking over the world, I had 2 really bad experiences of customer service from the same company.

There is a well-known budget hotel chain here in the UK called Travelodge. I have used its various hotels frequently in the last year or so. Normally my stay is a fairly painless experience – it’s a budget chain so you get what you pay for, but the rooms are pretty comfortable so I’m happy. I tend to arrive Continue reading →

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The Pygmies are Taking Over the World

As an entrepreneur, I have created many businesses. And these businesses need certain advisers like lawyers and accountants. Like many of you, these “species”, and I use the word advisedly, are not my most favourite people as they cost me lots of money and don’t appear to deliver much value.

Recently I was with one of these advisers and the conversation was not pleasant. In fact it made my blood boil. In a nutshell, I was asked, point blank, why I wasn’t making more money currently. Notwithstanding the incredible rudeness of the question, I was appalled that this came from an adviser that Continue reading →

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