Pret A Manger and ITSU founder: How Julian Metcalfe Built Global Billion Dollar Brands and The Art of Leadership and Simplicity in Complexity

The most mind-blowing conversation I’ve EVER had on challenger leadership.Julian Metcalfe is contrarian, formidable. A lucid single-mindedness married with a howling grit.The unique ability to find simplicity in complexity - “complexity is easy, simplicity is hard”Pret a Manger and ITSU combined are worth over £3 billion.Pret a Manger one of the biggest food and drink brands of all time, opened sites in New York, Hong Kong and successfully sold in 2018.ITSU are at 74 sites solving the obesity pandemic providing healthy, affordable, delicious food.ITSU grocery are disrupting categories with ground breaking affordable, delicious mealsTotal honour to interview Julian.ON THE MENU:Why challenger food and drink founders must BE BRAVE and swim upstream, when everyone’s swimming downstreamThe principles of empathetic leadership: listening + imagination = look at problems differentlyWhy complexity is much easier than simplicity - Do less, but do it beautifully = grow fasterWhy you must never ever, ever doubt what you can do as a human being - you’re capable of so much more than you thinkThe process of building great cultures: realise this hard-truth, people work for people, not for your company.The relentless pursuit of better: accept 99 is not 100, so constantly pursue betterWhy brands must grow EXACTLY in proportion in their ability to stay GOODFully eppy goes live Monday. If you enjoy the podcast.Please share it with one friend, you’d really make my weekend. Thanks xxSubscribe to our newsletterhttps://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/Watch the full shabang on Youtube -  https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videosLet’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here ​ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here ​ (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)