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2 years ago

Accelerating Potential: Leadership and Growth in the Luxury Automotive Sector

Richard Leopold, Regional Director of Bentley for the UK, Middle East, Africa and India highlights the need for a leader to inspire and support the team’s growth while ensuring their complete participation in the vision-building process. What was the best-ever lesson in leadership you’ve learned? I’d say never underestimate the importance of establishing a clear team vision and common purpose. Many companies have a corporate vision and often this can be too far removed for those further down in the organisation. Ask your team, “What is our role in delivering on the company’s ambitions?” Set a team vision together and then agree on the values and behaviours that you all believe are required to deliver it. By involving the team, their ownership, engagement and subsequently motivation increase dramatically. In my experience, this creates a strong foundation for a high-performance team. What was the greatest challenge you have faced in business? It has to be managing the supply and demand situation at Bentley during Covid. My role at the time was to forecast the sales demand and recommend supply adjustments at the factory in Crewe. When the pandemic hit China, it wasn’t too hard to estimate the potential impact of a […]

3 years ago

The Bentley Bentayga, Supersized

By Charlie Cooksey If I was to look at the globe on my office desk to pick a list of 10 of the furthest away cities from Bahrain, Vancouver would be in that list. A beautiful city on the far west Pacific coast of Canada, it’s one of the top 10 most sustainable cities in the world with 95% of its electricity being supplied by renewable energy. The city is known for its great quality of life, stunning surroundings, friendly people, and being a short drive from Whistler – quite easily the most beautiful part of the world I have seen, with more pristine lakes, mountains and lush green nature than you can shake a stick at. With all this in mind, it’s easy to see why Bentley decided to launch their supersized Bentayga here. Everywhere we drove in Vancouver and Whistler was picture perfect, further helped by the clear blue skies we were graced with during the event. The Bentayga is Bentley’s only SUV. First launched in late 2015 it was an instant success, quickly becoming the brands best-selling model of all time. Enter 2022, and Bentley have launched the all new Bentayga EWB (Extended Wheelbase). It is the […]

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