Steve Auckland – Review
Another great evening, another great speaker.
Steve Auckland spoke openly and candidly about his role in building the Metro brand, the future of newspaper and his unique style of leadership.
You can read the Twitter feed from the evening here
Quotes from the night
STEVE AUCKLAND
“Nobody has really tried to turn around the local newspaper business, they haven’t changed the mindset”
“We are empowering people and setting them free, to allow the entrepreneurs to get on with their job”
“You can’t blame the people in a failing business; it’s up to the managers to get the best from their people”
“Metro was a free newspaper; nobody had seen this kind of thing work before. I could see that free newspapers had a great market”
“We allow our people to make mistakes, they learn from that”
“Getting people to grow and watching the positive effect on the bottom line growth turns me on”
“I’ve never seen a company that focuses only on the bottom line, and not its people, do really well”
“Sometimes it’s the advertising you turn away that makes you”
“Newspapers with a clear DNA can make money. Like The Sun”