To kick off the fifth series Sean and Mark talk to Matt Wood, founder of the hugely popular RunThrough running events and the GW Active Agency. They talk building a community at the grassroots, and building a business with the lessons that it taught. They also talk about hiring the right people for the job, and then letting them do their job, doing the hard yards early and the necessity to go back into the trenches snd get stuck in with the day-to-day no matter where you are in the company. Matt recommends https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113934.The_Goal (The Goal by Eli Goldratt), the work of https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/ (Gary Vaynerchuk) and Seth Godin's blog and books. You can visithttps://www.runthrough.co.uk/ ( RunThrough) and GW Active on the web, or https://www.instagram.com/mattwoodywood/ (follow Matt on Instagram). If you enjoyed this episode, please leave feedback on iTunes, or send your feedback, comments and guest suggestions to Mark or Sean@noipodcast.show or send them to us via social media... You can now also buy us a coffee (we like cappuccinos from Gail's) here https://ko-fi.com/noipodcast (https://ko-fi.com/noipodcast) Also - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-gallagher-94599a54 (Sean on LinkedIn) and https://www.linkedin.com/in/markversus/ (Mark on LinkedIn) https://twitter.com/noipodcast (@noipodcast // Twitter) https://instagram.com/noipodcast (@noipodcast // Instagram) let us know what you think of the new logo. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/noipodcast/message --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noipodcast/message