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Having the Edge will Drive Growth
7 February 2012
The school of thought that assumes all high growth businesses are technology based is wrong. Fast-moving companies display an edge that connects Read more...
Winning Pitch hired for coaching scheme
2 February 2012
Manchester business coaching company Winning Pitch has said it is delighted to play a part in a government scheme aiming to help up to 10,000 Read more...
Business Coaching for Growth
31 January 2012
Business Coaching for Growth High growth companies will deliver the jobs The research clearly shows that a small number of ambitious Read more...
Manchester Business Survey - Downtown
27 January 2012
A breath of fresh air entered the business support arena at this mornings launch of the Manchester Business Survey. Frank McKenna led a great Read more...
Small Business Owners 'ready to give up'
25 January 2012
This was the headline finding of a report compiled by Aviva and covered in today’s Daily Mail. It went on to read “a quarter of small Read more...
The Manchester Family
19 January 2012
Today's headlines of the North West Insider Bulletin reads - Leese stresses importance of 'family' ties . This was one of the core themes of Read more...
Cash for Ambitious Start-Ups
17 January 2012
The Welsh Government is to provide £2m to help create and support up to 50 high growth businesses. It said companies supported under the Read more...
The Ego - A Danger Zone
12 January 2012
In his book Good to Great, Jim Collins wrote about the power of humility, personal will and its links to leadership excellence. Not to be confused Read more...
Our Hi-Tech Future
6 January 2012
This was the title of yesterday's speech delivered by David Willetts, Minister of State for Universities and Science. It was positive to hear that Read more...
You Get What You Focus On
3 January 2012
The importance of having a plan sounds like such a statement of the obvious, but how many of us in our business or personal life have one? At this Read more...
Organisational Effectiveness Dictates the Rate of Growth
22 December 2011
It’s really sad to see how many businesses fail to realise their full potential. Is it down to poorly defined value propositions, bad design, Read more...
Discipline & Innovation
19 December 2011
High growth companies are disproportionately innovative to those that are not and whilst I believe creativity is the ultimate source of competitive Read more...
Business Coaching for Growth
14 December 2011
I am delighted to announce that Winning Pitch will be part of the team delivering the UK Government Business Coaching for Growth programme - here is Read more...
12 December 2011
Asset or Calling?
12 December 2011
It never ceases to amaze me how passionate and animated entrepreneurs become when they talk about their business and what they do. To those Read more...
North West Insider Update - 42 Under Forty Two
7 December 2011
This months North West Insider magazine caught up with our CEO John Leach, former Insider 42 Under 42 alumnus, to ask those all important questions Read more...
Insights from Google - HGF Wow Event
2 December 2011
What an absolutely fantastic High Growth Foundation event the other night at the Imperial War Museum. Led by Michael Taylor with his usual charm, Read more...
Global Brands - Did they take part in recession?
30 November 2011
The Autumn statement provided depressing news for many households and entrepreneurs trying to build a future. Running a business is hard enough Read more...
Google comes to the HGF
29 November 2011
Creating innovative high performance cultures is what Alexis Giles from Google's Mountain View HQ (San Francisco) will talk about tomorrow evening. Read more...
High Growth Entrepreneurs ... Have you got an Innovation Department?
23 November 2011
Business incubators have become a common feature of public sector enterprise support in recent years; many of these establishments have proved to Read more...
Livercool Business Awards
22 November 2011
I experienced another great celebration of the entrepreneurial spirit that lives in Liverpool at last nights Downtown's Livercool Business Awards. It Read more...
High Growth Mentor
14 November 2011
A mentor is one of the most important tools in the entrepreneurs kit bag. Growth companies constantly reach forks in the road – so, which Read more...
Elevator Pitch History?
7 November 2011
For the past ten years marketing experts and the finance community have stressed the importance and benefit of having an "elevator pitch". This is Read more...
Safety Net Required High Growth Companies
2 November 2011
As I have said in recent blogs, high growth equals high personal risk. What comes with high risk is the need for a safety net that cushions any Read more...
Coming Soon - Silicon Valley
28 October 2011
If the UK is going to become the best place to set up and grow a business then we need to look at great practice. The entrepreneurial capital of the Read more...
New Website Launch
26 October 2011
The new High Growth Foundation Website will be launched on 1st November 2011. The site will give members access to business support tools and Read more...
Missing Link for Export Support
12 October 2011
UKTI is encouraging more exporters, unfortunately they are missing a serious bit of the equation. Many studies over the last few years have shown Read more...
HGF Global Companies Programme
7 October 2011
Last night we launched the HGF's "Global Companies" initiative. Another great turnout of members with a fantastic and most distinguished panel of Read more...
Awards Congratulations
21 September 2011
3P Logistics of Warrington, which provides order fulfillment services to online retailers, have been nominated as a finalist in the North Read more...
Global Companies
14 September 2011
High Growth Foundation: Global Companies - Raising the Bar of Read more...
Cities Provide Energy for Global Starts - 165 University Avenue
2 September 2011
165 University Avenue is a small rented office building on the main commercial street in the centre of Palo Alto, California – Silicon Read more...
Critical Friends
25 August 2011
The journey of a high growth business is very much a roller coaster ride with added twists and turns, some you see coming over the horizon and Read more...
Stimulating Innovation
17 August 2011
The New Economy report launched this week provides a solid foundation on which to build Manchester’s prominent position as UK’s second Read more...
Spinouts UK Project
12 August 2011
Spinouts UK Project Winning Pitch is proud to support & sponsor the Spinouts UK Project. Spinouts UK is an online Read more...
Getting Your Head In Gear
10 August 2011
Getting Your Head In Gear - Ideal Performing State The ideal performing state is the point when your mind is perfectly aligned to the task you Read more...
High Growth Companies - The Transition Points
9 August 2011
I am speaking at an event this morning about high growth and the leadership characteristics that go with driving a company forward. It’s Read more...
From Gazelles to Gorillas
3 August 2011
The answers to economic recovery over the past three years has centred significantly on the importance of gazelles – those high growth Read more...
High Growth Companies ARE Innovative
1 August 2011
This was one of the conclusions of a recent NESTA report looking at the performance of high growth businesses – but what does this really Read more...
Smart Operator - High Growth Individuals
22 July 2011
Recent economic challenges have placed serious pressure on people to think very differently. Business as usual is not an option, its time for Read more...
High Growth Companies - Sell the Love
20 July 2011
Yesterday morning I spoke to a fantastic group of ambitious high growth SMEs. The theme was how do growth businesses embrace a winning approach to Read more...
Goldman Sachs Growth Event - 10,000
9 July 2011
I spoke at the MMU/Goldman Sachs event last night and covered what I believe to be the 10 Rules for Growth, here they are: Read more...
We Need More Mavericks
4 July 2011
This post follows on from blogs I have written over the past few weeks. Mavericks are passionate, focused, determined and often a bit off the Read more...
John Ashcroft - Delivered a great High Growth Foundation Event
1 July 2011
It’s been a great week for the High Growth Foundation. To a packed crowd John Ashcroft delivered a massively honest, and insightful Read more...
Ways to a Winning Mindset...
30 June 2011
The Success Factor mindset principles I have been working on are starting to take shape. The guiding philosophies are based around ten themes, Read more...
Universities have much more to give
29 June 2011
As a Nation we should be extremely proud of the contribution our Universities have made to the progression of science and knowledge and our Read more...
Time to Change?
27 June 2011
Time to Change? The current economic climate has forced many individuals and organisations to re think and behave more entrepreneurially, Read more...
MBS Annual Research to Enterprise Summit 2011
15 June 2011
Enterprise Summit 2011 Nick Hewer (The Apprentice), Read more...
Inspired by Fast Moving Companies
9 June 2011
Words: John Leach, Winning Pitch as featured in DQ Downtown Quaterly Magazine It's great when your job involves surrounding yourself with Read more...
Fusion - Social Media and Traditional Community Building
26 May 2011
Fusion - Social Media and Traditional Community Building Where would we be without LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter ? Has it wiped out Read more...
The Rule of Three
11 May 2011
Some traditional sales philosophies tell us that we should keep following up leads, quotations and proposals till we get a “yes” or Read more...
The High Growth Foundation
20 April 2011
The High Growth Foundation - Do You Want To Grow Your Business? Over 1,700 businesses in the Region over the past two years have Read more...
The City of Manchester Business Awards 2011
28 March 2011
As one of the sponsors of Downtown Manchester in Business, John Leach CEO of Winning Pitch was delighted to present the BEST NEW BUSINESS award Read more...
Sunshine Success Story!
21 March 2011
Recently John Leach CEO of Winning Pitch was speaking at a Masterclass for the highly successful LEAD Programme. James Sandwell from the company Read more...
Baroness Hanham CBE, Communities Minister, truly impressed with the No
18 February 2011
The North West Regional Development Agency recently hosted a visit from Baroness Hanham CBE, Communities Minister from the Department for Read more...
The Memorable Principle - Use It To Stand Out
16 February 2011
The Memorable Principle - Use It To Stand Out The Memorable Principle is a simple creative philosophy that states we acknowledge, notice Read more...
MAG-net North West Event
12 February 2011
MAG-net North West Event The February MAG-net North West event was held last Thursday 17th February at The Living Room in Manchester. The event Read more...
Fast Tracking Personal Peak Performance
7 February 2011
I am constantly looking at ways in which individuals can enhance their performance and deliver high impact results faster. Research reveals how Read more...
Be Clear on Your Personal Intentions
5 February 2011
Goal setting has been around for years and there is nothing new about the concept, however, I believe that the term is too easily used and indeed Read more...
Stepping Out Into The Unknown
18 January 2011
John Leach, CEO & Founder of Winning Pitch January 2011 My research over the last few years has focused on the whole arena of Read more...
Gazelles as Drivers for Job Creation & Innovation
10 January 2011
Gazelle as Drivers for Job Creation & Innovation The success of the North West High growth programme delivered by Winning Read more...
Regional Success Story
5 January 2011
Winning Pitch provides coaching, mentoring and other forms of customised support to assist high growth businesses. The Winning Pitch approach Read more...
Focus for 2011 - Focus on Five Things
4 January 2011
Focus for 2011 - Focus on Five Things John Leach, CEO, Winning Pitch January 2011 You can’t focus on everything at once - Read more...
Getting to Know You
22 December 2010
John Leach, CEO, Winning Pitch December 2010 We had our Christmas do and communications day on Friday and it struck me how Read more...
Power of Vision
15 December 2010
John Leach, CEO, Winning Pitch December 2010 The term vision has featured so prominently in the research into what makes successful Read more...
The Power of the Personal Brand
5 December 2010
John Leach, CEO, Winning Pitch December 2010 People buy brands and as research tells us people also buy people - 70 % of a Read more...
Oldham Partnership launches oldhambusiness.com
24 November 2010
Winning Pitch have been working in partnership with Oldham Council for the last few years providing business support programmes for companies Read more...
High Impact Selling - A Proven Model
12 November 2010
John Leach, CEO, Winning Pitch November 2010 Anyone involved in sales and marketing will know about features and benefits - a legacy Read more...
Skills Excellence
10 November 2010
Transformational Selling When it comes to big ticket selling – Winning Pitch knows how to do it. Testament to this is they secured Read more...
Competent Is Just Not Good Enough!
8 November 2010
John Leach, CEO, Winning Pitch October 2010 The HR world constantly refers to the term “competencies for roles”. I Read more...
Content is King
7 November 2010
John Leach, CEO, Winning Pitch October 2010 We are in an age where digital marketing is so important to getting visibility with customers, Read more...
High Growth Businesses
5 November 2010
November 2010 I have spent the last four weeks reading strategy documents about the new system for supporting enterprise and innovation Read more...
Charity Marathon - Help for Heroes
13 October 2010
Director of Winning Pitch Executive Resourcing, Carl Smith recently completed the London Royal Parks Half Marathon in aid of the Help for Heroes Read more...
Corporate Mindset .vs. Entrepreneurial Mindset
5 October 2010
John Leach, CEO, Winning Pitch September 2010 As I have started to become more active Read more...
The Power of Partnerships
24 September 2010
John Leach 27/09/2010 Partnerships, alliances, and collaboration are a vital tool for any business. In an increasingly complex Read more...
Join the Road to Success
17 September 2010
Join the Road to Success Growing Business Magazine September 2010 Growing Business Magazine and growingbusiness.co.uk are some of the Read more...
LEPs: Devolvement of Power
15 September 2010
Since the formation of the Coalition Government in May, local government policy has been review ed by the Department of Communities and Local Read more...
Successful Pilot Launched
6 September 2010
More Videos By WPtv >>>>> Success Factor is a set of principles built into a framework that helps individuals to Read more...
Over 200 Jobs Created Per Month
2 July 2010
NWDA High Growth Programme is creating over 200 jobs per month In September 2008 Winning Pitch Plc (a Manchester based management Read more...
Clicking With Customers
2 July 2010
On Tuesday 13th July Yell are holding the Clicking with customers event at the De Vere Hotel, Daresbury - a free event about practical ways to Read more...
High Growth Fieldbook
29 June 2010
How Leaders In The Most Successful High Growth Businesses Think, Act & Behave The Fast Growth Fieldbook, published in 2010, Read more...
The Success Factor
7 June 2010
>> Visit The Success Factor website >> About Success Factor - Success Factor is a set of principles built into a Read more...
North West Insider Daily 07/06/10
7 June 2010
North West Business Insider - Daily News - 7 June 2010 WP Chief Executive launches the Success Factor >> visit The Success Read more...
Success Factor Blog
3 June 2010
"I've decided that I am going to start a blog around the theme of personal development, innovation and business growth". I have Read more...
High Growth Insights
2 June 2010
High Growth Insights Insights on High Growth Entrepreneurs to be released late summer 2010. Read more...
Bay Walker 2010
31 May 2010
Winning Pitch Entrepreneurial Solutions Consultant David Whiteside recently completed a charity walk with a difference, walking around Read more...
Danes Visit Winning Pitch
1 May 2010
Marlene Haugaard The Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority (DECA) recently came to meet Winning Pitch to share best practice Read more...
New MD
30 April 2010
Winning Pitch has promoted 52 year-old Brian Dormand to the post of managing director. Prior to joining the firm, Brian was Read more...
