True leaders tend to be successful at pretty much whatever’s given to them. (Philip Barnard)

In this edition of The Leadership Show, Simon Chadwick chats with four leaders who have spent the past five decades successfully building substantial entities. Folks such as Jay Wilson who built Roper Starch (sold to NOP World), Bill Pegram who co-founded and built Pegram Walters (sold to Synovate), Philip Barnard who built Research International from its founding days as a division of Unilever (sold to WPP), and Tim Bowles who built IRI Europe. This is one of the most fun podcasts to listen to thanks to Simon and his guests.

BTW, Simon wrote and presented an excellent paper at ESOMAR ‘07 for free download entitled “Leadership - The Men and Women Who Shape Our Industry”.

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 STARRING 

• Bill Pegram, Bill Pegram & Co, and gravitas
• Jay Wilson, Wilson Connexions and partner, Cambiar
• Philip Barnard, former chairman and CEO, Kantar Group
• Tim Bowles, former head, IRI Europe and former CEO, West Europe, Synovate
• Simon Chadwick, partner, Cambiar and gravitas (Host)

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 My senior management team, I made sure that they could do stages 1 (turnaround) and 2 (growth), with a real emphasis on delivering 2.

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Meet Kimberly Till, head honcho at TNS North America. And by “meet” we mean this is the first chance to really get to know her and her passion.

Anyway, back in May 2006, Kimberly accepted the challenge of turning around the troubled North American operations of TNS, the world’s #2 MR firm. She took on this challenge despite lucrative offers from internet startups after a career at Microsoft and in media and entertainment. Listen on to find out how the turnaround is going, how she approaches leadership, and how she intends to inject a much-needed spirit of entrepreneurism into TNS NA

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 STARRING 

• Kimberly Till, CEO, TNS North America
• Simon Chadwick, partner, Cambiar and gravitas (Host, in spirit)

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 Probably the single most important [leadership] quality at the moment
is clarity.(Lorna Walters)

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 THE LEADERSHIP SHOW  In the previous edition of The Leadership Show, host Simon Chadwick chatted with some of industry’s foremost entrepreneurs. Now it’s the turn of three corporate leaders in mega agencies to define their leadership style and imperatives. And while you’d expect a contrast, it’s not always where you’d expect

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 STARRING 

• Bob Skolnick, CEO, Synovate North America
• Lorna Walters, CEO, Research International USA
• Phyllis Macfarlane, Head, GfK NOP Custom
• Simon Chadwick, partner, Cambiar and gravitas (Host)

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If the industry doesn’t have an image of being dynamic, of being creative, of moving with the times, then it won’t be able to recruit the right people and it will find that it becomes devalued over time
(Mark Whiting)

 WIN ‘07  Recorded during a world leader meeting, Tony Cowling and Mark Whiting talk about the need to focus on the competition outside the traditional MR sector as a way to leverage growth, maintain relevance and inspire users

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 STARRING 

• Tony Cowling, President, TNS
• Mark Whiting, Head of Marketing Intelligence, Moët Hennessy

Recorded at the ESOMAR WIN ‘07 event

ESOMAR was kind enough to reimburse travel and accommodation expenses

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 Entrepreneurship: “The satisfaction of building something from nothing“
(Gian Fulgoni)

 
 THE LEADERSHIP SHOW  Not all leaders are entrepreneurs. And not all entrepreneurs make good leaders. But, my oh my, when you get leaders that ARE good entrepreneurs, you can be sure that innovation and success are close behind. So sit down and prepare to be inspired by some anecdotes and wise words from three entrepreneurial leaders of our time - Chet Zalesky, Clare Bruce and Gian Fulgoni, Gian being a serial entrepreneur. Hosted by none other than Simon Chadwick, himself a former leader at Gfk NOP and now a strategic advisor. Part of our new leadership series, look out for more episodes

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 STARRING 

• Chet Zalesky, founder and President, CMI Solutions
• Clare Bruce, founder and CEO, Nunwood Consulting
• Gian Fulgoni, co-founder and Chairman, comScore Networks
• Simon Chadwick, partner, Cambiar and gravitas (Host)

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Click the image to see a full size table of recent MR deals.

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Once you go down a road strategically, you end up in a what you may call a path dependent position…from which it’s very difficult to turn back
(Andy Dexter)

 BIG Conference  In this, the final podcast in the run up to the BIG Conference, Andy Dexter makes the case to Steve Wills for a pure consultancy focused completely on insight. But while he makes a persuasive case, can he convince Steve that he has thought through the many issues surrounding talent? Listen to find out

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 STARRING 

• Andy Dexter, founder and Managing Partner, Truth Consulting
• Steve Wills, co-founder and MD, Customer Insight Solutions (Host)

Learn more about BIG Conference 2007

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 ENTREPRENEURISM  In this, the third of four preview podcasts ahead of ESOMAR Congress ‘06, one of the industry’s foremost entrepreneurs, John Kearon of BrainJuicer, speaks to one of the nation’s most accomplished serial entrepreneurs, Sahar Hashemi, co-founder of Coffee Republic and founder of new startup Skinny Candy. Sahar talks about ways to stimulate that all-important entrepreneurial spirit within all of us so as to cultivate innovative and fresh thinking

 STARRING 

• Sahar Hashemi, Coffee Republic, Skinny Candy, author of Anyone Can Do It
• John Kearon, Chief Juicer, BrainJuicer (Host)

Learn more about ESOMAR CONGRESS ‘06

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