Bold by Design: Brendan Dowling on Purpose, Ireland, and the Leaders of Tomorrow [004]

Episode Description

Brendan Dowlingcoaches the CEOs of Irish companies that have already succeeded, and his job isto make them world class. He starts every engagement in the same place:ambition. We talk about why Irish founders sell too early, what Silicon Valleyinvestors found when they opened the bonnet on Irish tech companies, and whythe fix is a belief system as much as a funding model. We get into flippingbetween coach and advisor, the CEO who summed up a year of scaling his companyin one word (calm), and what AI and an education system built on memorizationmean for the next generation.

Brendan grew upone of eight children on a farm in rural Ireland, shooting and fishing forsupper. He watched his father lose the family business when he was a teenagerand qualified as a chartered accountant so he'd never go hungry if he failed.Then he became an entrepreneur anyway: an aftershave he says outsold RalphLauren, mobile phones, digital media. Now he's putting on the green jersey forIreland. If you lead a company that's good and could be great, spend the hour.

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