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Simon Wakeman

Monthnotes — June 2023 — Simon Wakeman

June was very much a business as usual month after the disruption of my health scare and surgery last month.

3 min readJun 29, 2023

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Monthnotes — June 2023 — Simon Wakeman

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Simon Wakeman

tBA9: Process isn’t boring

Working with process gets a bad press in many creative businesses.

3 min readMar 2, 2023

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tBA9: Process isn’t boring

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Simon Wakeman

Monthnotes — February 2023

I worked out that this is my 41st consecutive set of monthnotes. Sometimes when I first sit at the keyboard to start writing it’s hard to…

6 min readFeb 28, 2023

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Monthnotes — February 2023

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Simon Wakeman

tBA8: Mise en place

Chefs know a lot goes into making consistently good restaurant food.

3 min readFeb 23, 2023

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tBA8: Mise en place

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Simon Wakeman

tBA7: Lenses and mirrors in decision making

A colleague recently told me I was obsessed with lenses.

3 min readFeb 16, 2023

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tBA7: Lenses and mirrors in decision making

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Simon Wakeman

tBA6: Scaling leadership

A conversation with Joel got me thinking last week.

4 min readFeb 9, 2023

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tBA6: Scaling leadership

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Simon Wakeman

tBA5: Building businesses with accountability

A lot’s talked in business about accountability, yet few people think about what it means.

4 min readFeb 2, 2023

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tBA5: Building businesses with accountability

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Simon Wakeman

Monthnotes — January 2023

This month marked a new chapter for me at work.

3 min readJan 31, 2023

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Monthnotes — January 2023

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Simon Wakeman

tBA4: Pacing your business

Last weekend I entered my first running race in 13 years.

4 min readJan 26, 2023

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tBA4: Pacing your business

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Simon Wakeman

tBA3: Reducing friction in scale-up businesses

If you leave a boat in seawater for too long, barnacles will start attaching and growing. They glue themselves to the hull of your boat…

4 min readJan 19, 2023

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tBA3: Reducing friction in scale-up businesses

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Simon Wakeman

Simon Wakeman

Consultant, fractional COO and non-executive director for scale-up businesses. NED @ National Support Network CIC. Trustee @ Caldecott Foundation.

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