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DEBATE GROWTH


IN ASSOCIATION WITH:


A GROWING SENSE OF WHAT’S POSSIBLE


The Covid-19 pandemic has affected all businesses. We brought together a panel with Two Zero, the county’s scaleup programme, to ask if attitudes to growth have changed as a result and just how far a scaleup mindset can take businesses in the current climate


David Shoesmith - Scaleup Institute


We see five key challenges for scaleup companies. First is access to the right talent, getting the right leaders within your business, getting the non-exec directors that you need.


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Lynn Sedgwick - Clayton Legal


Most of us here have been through at least one recession and what has been unusual in this situation is that business wasn’t open, and so adaptability was key; that ability to be really agile and open and to go and seek out knowledge; that ability to learn; and the mindset of wanting not just to survive but to thrive.


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 Lynn Sedgwick


  


David Shoesmith


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