Who would want to start a business in a highly competitive, saturated market? It sounds like an ungrateful thing to do, yet many entrepreneurs see opportunities in these circumstances. Few have the tenacity to bring their vision to life, so it was very valuable to sit down with Hermann Gudmundsson, an Iceland-based entrepreneur who succeeded in realizing his vision already back in the 1990s and has been progressing ever since. Hermann has gone through diverse stages of business: from having 1 employee to over 1000 people on payroll, or 850 full-time employees; from building a company in the mid-90s with no smartphones and internet to running a business in our highly-connected world these days; and past a handful of crises nationally and globally. In our conversation, we dove into Hermann's learnings that can hugely benefit your journey.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- inheriting teams after acquisitions and aligning them to the main business
- Hermann's philosophy for hiring people
- the market being the master - not the seller
- hustling 24/7 for four years, the win and losses of that time
- changing your mind as a leader
- taking two months off per year as a CEO, for 14 years straight
- the value of downtime and rest for a CEO's personal and business success
Stay safe and #standwithukraine,
Anna
Resources:
Connect with Hermann: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermann-gu%C3%B0mundsson-09583b11/
Check out Kemi: https://kemi.is/
Sign-up for the Sustainable Leadership Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/205a08ca614c/sustainableleadershipnewsletter
Book a Mindshifting Intensive: https://annaliebel.as.me/strategycall
Support Ukraine: https://u24.gov.ua/
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