Finance Manager Interview

Why is 'What is P***ing You Off Most About Your Job?' one of the most valuable questions of any company manager, Jeremy Schwartz, one of the biggest authorities on leadership explains. What will it take a company to succeed in the 21th century world as we are witnessing? How to embrace challenges and make most of them? How to get the theory into practice?

TIMECODES
0:00:00 FMI Intro: #Jeremy Schwartz
0:01:10 Secular Trends Running the World
0:03:24 Policy Orientations & Company Manager Responses
0:05:35 To-Do List for Managers to Follow
0:09:01 How to Tackle Resistance to Change
0:11:16 Going Digital First and Green Afterwards? Or Vice Versa?
0:13:52 How to Start Digitizing Your Business, If You Are Not There Already?
0:15:53 Minimum Requirements to Start Digitizing Your Business?
0:17:17 What to Outsource & What to Keep In House?
0:18:28 The 8 New Essential Skills of Leadership for Extraordinary Results
0:23:52 Shifting From Globalization to Localization
0:26:14 Localization & Companies' Pursuit of ESG Pinciples
0:29:29 Problem of Averages: Example of Coke Zero
0:32:10 Tapping into Human Insight as Every Company's Holy Grail
0:33:45 Myths & Doing Business: Example of Pandora
0:36:07 Sustainability Issues: Example of The Body Shop
0:38:23 Every Company Has to Know Its Impact
0:39:32 Blockchain Solutions for Sustainability
0:40:26 Jeremy Schwartz's Final Thoughts

Jeremy Schwartz was a CEO of multinational corporations like The Body Shop, Pandora, and Conival PLC, Managing Director at L’Oreal, as well as Marketing Director for Sainsbury’s and Coca-Cola, where he actually invented the Coke Zero brand. He is now Chairman of the Kantar/WPP Sustainability and Diversity practice and advisor to McKinsey’s.

This is the 'Finance Manager Interview #016 – Jeremy Schwartz’ interview, which was recorded on June 24, 2021. The printed version of this interview was published in 'Finance Manager', the leading business weekly magazine in Slovenia
https://manager.finance.si/8977690/%2...

LINKS
Jeremy Schwartz, interviewee:
linkedin.com/in/jeremyschwartz2021-ceo-coo
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/saving-tomorrows-planet/id1499008081
www.instagram.com/savingtomorrowsplanet/?hl=en
Bostjan Usenik, interviewer & producer of the channel:   / bostjanusenik  
Photo courtesy: Rob Kennard