Progress and Change
David Cooper
Managing Director,
Airlie Funds Management
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Difficult times for your industry
• Fund raising harder every year
• Attracting the right people
• Bureaucracy
• Motivation
• Regulatory change / uncertainty
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1. 2 people who inspired me
2. How I tackled one particular challenge
3. Technology
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Ricardo Semler
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• Born 1959
• Become CEO, Semco Partners
• The Brazilian economy was in trouble
• Fought with his father over management issues
• Introduced a radical approach to change and management
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Act quickly, time is your enemy
• On day he sacked 60% of top management
• Now the workers run the company, set their own wages, budgets and
best yet…employ their own managers!!
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Ricardo Semler
Empowerment of children
Courses:
• Design a bicycle
Physics
• Cooking
Chemistry
• Only turn up only if you want to
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So what about an inspiring person
who managed change through
adversity
Adam Kellerman
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Adam Kellerman
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My approach to change
How I approached overwhelming
competition
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 I like low risk ideas
 Don’t bet the shop
 Always simplify don’t complicate
 Lots of small simple ideas with high potential
gains is better than a big complicated idea
with medium gains
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Using change to your advantage
through technology
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5.2 billion people use mobile phones (73%
of the worlds population)
40% of these are smart phones
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Could this be the future wallet?
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Theme:
 Use change to your advantage
 Invite change into your organisation
 Act quickly before it overtakes you
Thank you
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