Bite Sized Business Tips

You can absolutely do things guaranteed to make your business fail. But unfortunately, there aren't things you can do which are guaranteed to make your business succeed. It is the same asymmetry at play in Seneca's sage quote that _"an age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. In a ...
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Joy. You can feel the places that have it, and the ones that don't. It's not about en enforced fun - the organised pub quiz or bowling night. Not that there's no place for them, but it's at least as likely that they'll be cringemaking as it will that they'll ...
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There's one main obstacle that stops agencies and consultancies from scaling up... ... CEOs / MDs being unable to step back from their business to focus on strategic work. I (really) hate the cliche, but it's true - Making time to work on their business rather than in their business ...
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In the best leadership teams, Sales Directors evolve from "My job is sales" to "My job is to meet our company's goals through my contribution in sales". As it is for Sales Directors, so it is for Finance Directors or Product Directors or Delivery or Marketing or Technology or ...
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In a world where we (rightly) look for companies whose business it is to help us solve the climate and social crises we face, do you have a role if your company purpose isn't about these things?In this latest episode of the Karmic Capitalist podcast, I speak to David Ellis, ...
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I (and many others) write a lot about the responsibilities of the leader, and what we should be doing to better the lot of our teams and our companies. What I see a lot less written about is the responsibility of that team, of employees to the company. But if ...
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What human impact does your business have? Isabel Kelly watched first hand how business influence was used to secure the release of political prisoners. That left her with a lasting impression of the power of business to positively impact human rights which she's taken with her in her business engagements ...
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Bo Burlingham's excellent book, "Small Giants", charts the stories of companies for whom being great is more important than being big. In each case, the founders or CEOs faced very real choices between following tried and tested growth paths or doing something different and keeping their mojo. Sometimes, that meant ...
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Much of the ESG drive, especially in reporting, is to standardise what is good, what is ethical. Get to an index as definitive as sales or EBITDA for your environmental, social and governance impact. But does that make sense? Whose standards are the standard? Are anyone's standards entirely objective? This is ...
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To succeed in addressing today's large challenges, we'll need collaboration between business, government, the third sector and society. But we also need it translated from big words into a real difference on the ground. In this latest episode of the Karmic Capitalist, Repc's managing director, Bevil Williams, shows how to ...
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Stepping up to meet the global challenges we face today is going to need concerted action from us in all the various roles we play - as consumers, employees & bosses, voters & citizens, or parents & role models. But critically, we will also need to make our voices heard ...
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Is your sustainability certificate really making a difference? How deep does it go? Has it helped shape your commercial strategy? I see a lot of companies now brandishing their sustainability credentials. And that's a good thing. In my view sometimes even when it's greenwash (see earlier post). But your sustainability ...
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