James Morris
@MorrisJFM
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Founder at award-winning, B Corp SME | Helping companies with multi site operations & AI | Advisor & mentor elsewhere 🚀 | #SME #Founder #Operations #AI
London & Europe
Joined February 2013
Really enjoyed chatting w Doug from @AuthorityMgzine 📰 last month. Here’s 5 things I wish I knew before leading my biz 👇👇 #leadership #growth #sme
James Morris of Trafalgar Structures: Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became A CEO by Doug Noll
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Can we take a moment to admire the Estonian National Opera car park barriers
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Yes that is one of the very most common mistakes in strategy. It is the manifestation of fear not confidence to try to do lots of things rather than a few things.
@RogerLMartin you emphasize that strategy is about making clear choices about what to do and what not to do. Yet, I often see organizations reluctant to make trade-offs. Instead of committing to a particular market segment, they try to serve all customer segments in the name of
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Sometimes AI is brilliant. Sometimes it completely misses. But it always sounds ultra confident. That’s a problem.
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To drive strategy execution, leaders should instead set goals that are FAST — frequently discussed, ambitious, specific, and transparent. Learn more: https://t.co/BGL2cIShn1
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Several people have made the good point that it's worrying that GDP can be so sensitive to just one company - JLR. But turning this round, imagine the upside if the UK had a pro-business Government - or at least one that understood business - and got the fundamentals right? 🤔
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I'm often finding the real power in AI (for SME's), is using AI to help or refine 'boring' / 'standard' automations. Anyone else finding the same? #automation #AI #processing 🤖
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The more you think about it, the more extraordinary - and disturbing - it is... A group of hackers have singlehandedly caused a fall in UK GDP. Weeks ahead of the Budget. Can anyone think of a parallel in recent economic history? I can't.
👀Just look at the economic impact of the cyberattack and shutdown at Jaguar Land Rover👇 Output from the entire UK motor industry contracted by 28.6% in September, according to the ONS. Save for the pandemic that's the biggest monthly fall on record...
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"making the environment safe for open communication about challenges, concerns and opportunities is one of the most important leadership responsibilities in the twenty-first century" so true from @amyCEdmondson , although easier said than done 😅 #leadership #communication
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Fun fact: optimise for what's efficient externally and you'll run your business at a lower cost than if you try to generate efficiencies based on what internal people think external people *ought* to do...
Bad customer experiences rarely come from bad people. They come from teams optimizing for what’s easiest or most efficient internally, not what’s right externally.
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"Stop serving the compliment sandwich " great article on feedback from @AdamMGrant
https://t.co/p66dghgOeC , also super helpful in practice ! #management #leadership #feedback
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@MorrisJFM No one ever wants to hear that you need to work hard.
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Reddit, LinkedIn, newsletters—doesn't matter: – Weeks 1-4: Full commitment – Weeks 5-8: Waning enthusiasm – Week 12: "This platform doesn't work" Spoiler: They all work, but only if you put in 52 weeks of non-stop high-quality effort.
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Start each morning by reminding yourself of THREE THINGS
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McKinsey just dropped its 2025 AI report. 1. Everyone’s testing, few are scaling. 88% of companies now use AI somewhere. Only 33% have scaled it beyond pilots. 2. The profit gap is huge. Just 6% see real EBIT impact. Most are still stuck in “experiments,” not execution. 3. The
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As Liz Truss joins former PMs at The Cenotaph a reminder that, with decent life expectancy, she will spend more accumulated time at the Cenotaph than she did being Prime Minister.
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