Richard Harpin
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914 appearances
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 12 Jan
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Not all at the same time.
And I'd probably look back and say we should have been even more focused.
And if I hadn't had those entrepreneurial distractions, because I think every entrepreneur, including me, is like a fox.
We're always looking for the next opportunity and we need to be hedgehogs.
When somebody comes along with a harebrained idea, we put up our prickles, we ignore the idea, and we keep going in a methodical direction, just executing.
So your message is more hedgehog, less fox.
Is that right?
Every entrepreneurial fox needs to hire their hedgehog.
Okay, so it's a partnership.
Yeah, because back to that honual character, you can't, if you're naturally a fox, you're never going to be a hedgehog, but you can hire one.
The job of the hedgehog is to tell you, no, get that on the not-to-do list.
That's a stupid idea, Richard.
There's a good dynamic here, which I'm now visualising between hedgehog and fox.
But I am going to fire my last two questions at you, which I ask everybody at the end of my podcast.
The first, because at Reid we love Mondays, is what gets you up on a Monday morning?
The passion to do the only thing that I'm good at, and I could sum that up in two words, and that's my career objective for my final 25 years in business before I die, and that is inspire breakthrough.
And I hope I did that with my team in HomeServe.
If you went to talk to any of those 10 chief execs, they did it rather than me.
And I wanted to inspire breakthrough in other entrepreneurs.
So on a Monday morning, I think,
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