First published in Management today Which books have had the biggest impact on the way you approach business and leadership? What is each book about? Why have they been so influential? “How will you measure your life” by Clay Christensen Christensen shows how proven business theories can be applied to the rest of your life, … Read more …
Looking beyond the grades: Why resilience brings the best ROI
My mother was recently down from Scotland visiting, and we were all sitting having dinner together with my mate Jon. Jon has been a friend of the family for 10 years or so, and he took the opportunity to see if he could try and dig up some dirt on my earlier years. Basically, searching … Read more …
Innovation: Why it starts with a swimming pool and a floating object!
I recently had a COVID-19 antibody test, only for it to come back negative. I wasn’t necessarily expecting it to be any different, having not had any significant symptoms. I did however have some suspicions that the virus has been in the Combe household, having had both my children off school earlier in the year … Read more …
Are you colour blind?
My father suffers with colour vision deficiency, otherwise known as “colour-blindness”. Not severely enough to affect his everyday life but bad enough for him to make some questionable sweater and chino combinations and discard any dreams he may have had of being an airline pilot or an electrician. There is however an altogether different colour-blindness … Read more …
3 things I learned about leadership during COVID
On the 21st of January 2020, like many CEO’s, I stood in front of our whole business and talked about the year just gone and the year ahead. 2019 had been a very successful year for Paybyphone, solely down to the efforts of the team who had worked their socks off to make it a … Read more …
Why sustainability is a business gamechanger
As businesses across the world focus more intensely on their sustainability agenda, Jonny Combe, UK CEO of global mobile parking payments company PayByPhone, explains how this impacts leadership, and why credible environmental stewardship must form a key part of business strategy and growth. We’re living in a time where corporate responsibility and transparency are paramount. … Read more …
Going green for the future of the business
In today’s increasingly competitive marketplace, every company needs to incorporate green thinking into its business model, and it can be more straight-forward than it seems, writes Jonny Combe, UK CEO of PayByPhone. Environmental sustainability is more than simply looking at the impact of a business on the environment; it is just as important for attracting … Read more …
Grant Thornton, Leaders on Leadership
First published by Grant Thornton, Leaders on Leadership, 25 November 2019. First-time CEO Jonny Combe and former chief executive turned growth adviser Ken Moss discuss the CEO journey: from the first week on the job, to the highs and lows of leadership, to developing your own vision and management style. Jonny Combe is UK CEO … Read more …
Surround yourself with people who will tell you you’re wrong
First published in HR Magazine, September 26, 2019. I started out… Washing neighbours’ cars to earn some extra cash as a ‘wee lad’ in rural Scotland. I then went on to study marketing at the University of Stirling. I knew this was the right career path for me when… I joined the BMW Group in … Read more …
Parking Review Interview
First published in Parking Review, 2019 Jonny Combe, UK CEO of PayByPhone, says that cashless parking technology is surging, but more work lies ahead before parking services can be offered as a built-in function in the connected cars of the future. 2018 saw a tremendous uptake in cashless parking. Local authorities across the UK are … Read more …