The Other Camp David – an Investment Banker’s Growth Ideas
The Third Growth Option with Benno Duenkelsbuehler and Guests
English - February 18, 2021 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBBusiness business revenue expansion growth Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
When I’m in the market for thoughtful, intentional and sound advice, over the years I have turned to David Deutsch, a NYC investment banker, board member, investor, and founder of David N. Deutsch & Company. In this episode, David shares freely and openly how he approaches business, clients, relationships, and personal priorities. A few quotes provide a good appetizer:
3:53 – “Finance is merely the fuel. The business is the engine.”
4:31 – about re-engineering your business around mobility “we’ve been doing it long before the pandemic… a migration to what we are right now… 5:38 – we’re mobile, we choose to be that kind of flexible, and use technology to our and our clients’ benefit”
10:39 – “we were never hired because we had more leather chairs… or a better view over Central Park”
18:55 – “we plan and we budget… but beyond positioning there is evolving and adapting and surviving… it ebbs and flows… recessions and pandemics… and you need to adapt”
20:14 – “sales in our work is like being a surgeon… you’re a known heart surgeon and people don’t need you every day but when the need arises, hopefully you get the call”
24:52 – “things that can be routinized and codified, should be… and then the art is the art”
27:40 – “before we do a 17-page spreadsheet – what does your gut tell you?”
Always growing.
Benno Duenkelsbuehler
CEO & Chief Sherpa of (re)ALIGN