Peter Lowe draws on his experience of Premier League football to help businesses to create and sustain a culture of success. He proves that there are startling similarities between the pitch and the boardroom. Pete’s track record includes more than 13 years in a senior role at Manchester City Football Club, where he was responsible for helping to develop an unrivalled talent pipeline that created 39 first team footballers and 25 full international players. His strategy for success is simple: “just be better than the rest”. Pete believes that the high-performance world of professional sport brings significant parallels with life that can provide real lessons that we can all benefit from. As a professional speaker and thought leader on the global circuit, Pete draws on his experience of the high performance environment of Premier League football to help businesses to create and sustain a culture of success. He proves that there are startling similarities between the pitch and the boardroom. Pete’s track record includes more than 13 years in a senior role at Manchester City Football Club, where he was responsible for helping to develop an unrivalled talent pipeline that created 39 first team footballers and 25 full international players. The academies s trophy cabinet was testament to this success, with 13 European tournament wins, an U15 Championship World Cup, six Divisional Premier League Championships and the FA Youth Cup. Understanding how people tick and how to help them realise their potential was instrumental to his career at MCFC. He claims that knowing each character in the training room lies at the heart of extraordinary team performance. Pete is adamant that there are no shortcuts to sustained success. His powerful insights delivered in a ‘say it as it is’ manner captivate audiences and prove that ‘tales from the touchline’ translate to other arenas, with compelling results. He maintains that ‘excellence’ is a nebulous destination and continuous improvement is the Holy Grail of sustained high performance. A man who speaks from the heart using real life insights, Pete believes that culture must support strategy and leaders create leaders, not followers.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the difficulties were all in your own mindset believe it not… When you change your direction, your route in life what you don’t realise Neil is actually just how much weaponry you got on your armoury that gives you an opportunity to succeed or to build yourself a potential career no matter how long it might take. It takes you a while to realise that. So when you stop self blocking yourself… where your mindset stops creating self-created rope ladders that you have to climb and that actually there is a ladder right by the side of you which is a damn sight easier for you to climb, you start to do that. That’s the biggest thing that I found”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership Book by Bill Walsh and Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh
- The Winner within: A Life Plan for Team Players Book by Pat Riley
Favourite Quote:
- “if you give doubt and fear so much power they are so hungry they will eat you alive” Apple Mortgage Cake
- “winners are winners before they become winners, champions do extra” Bill Walsh
- “is no such thing as would of, could of, should have, if you should of, and could of, you would have done it” Pat Riley
Recommended Online Resources:
- LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.
- Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
- YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“it is unbelievably hard, it’s incredibly challenging, there will be moments of the most profound self-doubts, never, never, never give up because it’s too easy. Accept the challenge and just keep working so hard that degree of hard work absolutely engrains a belief that you can get there. You can get there, you can get there… You have to believe in yourself that it’s going to come right and it’s going to happen, that you get a breakthrough moment, an elevation moment. An opportunity to elevate yourself off your seat. Only a foot by the way but that’s a 1% marginal gain. Accept the marginal gain, seek the marginal gain, the 1% that makes you better on a Tuesday than you were on a Monday ”…[Listen for More]
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” Pele, Brazilian retired professional footballer
Other Quotes From the Chat with Peter Lowe:
- “I learned a lot from those that actually experience failure a great deal in their early days of their career”
- “I gathered people around me that I wanted to be around that could advise me, that would also act as mentors, trusted people. It’s really important to have trusted positive people Neil, positive people, not negative mindset, absolutely not negative mindset”
- “we all go through those huge moments of self-doubt, little moments that can become big moments if you don’t deal with them properly”
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