Bite Sized Business Tips
2 minute reads for the values-led business leader
Snippets for purpose and values-led business leaders about meeting our responsibilities to our team, customers, owners, communities and suppliers. Context is everything, so these aren't dogma - rather a stimulus for thought. Subscribe below.
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Preparing the next generation of execs for business and impact – Tom Rippin CEO of On Purpose
For business to be better, we (i.e. humans) need to be better. The way most companies have been doing business in the last few decades has been having a glaringly detrimental impact on society and the environment. If we're to pull it back, we need to do it quickly. Tom Rippin ...
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Your business doesn’t care
Something (most) founders get, but others on the team less so. When something goes wrong or fails to happen, and you have a (even very good) reason why, your business doesn't care. Nor does your body. And neither does the universe. It's the thing about owning something completely. There may ...
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Is mental health a concern in your company?
Mental health is a minefield for CEOs to deal with. {Disclaimer - I am not a mental health professional. Someone will likely tell me that this post is irresponsible. But it comes from real conversations with real CEOs dealing with real people. It also comes from genuine concern that our ...
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What if you focussed your company’s work on improving lives rather than maximising profit?
How would your company look if you made an explicit decision to be guided in your strategy, your operations and your decision-making by a principle to improve lives rather than maximise profit? What if you decided what level of profit is necessary to achieve that goal, settled for that, and ...
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How to not “win” the wrong business
How to turn down revenue that isn't aligned with your company's purpose and/or values? As I'm currently on holiday with my family, and there's no #KarmicCapitalist podcast episode this or next week, I thought I'd pick a couple of learnings I had in themes talking to my guests. One consistent ...
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Do you control your team or bring out the best in them?
Are you going to be the CEO who controls your team or the one who brings out the best in them? Because both actually need the same foundation. Both require a framework and direction to be effective. The challenge is that many of us “nice” people misinterpret bringing out the ...
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Time and what to do with it
We don’t have much control over the amount of time we have available to do things. However we have a lot of control over the number of things we try to do in the time we have. This is a guiding principle for how to be fulfilled both as a ...
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“Purpose-driven people are problem solvers and doers” – Ruth Hartnoll, CEO of Matchstick Creative
A fundamental principle if you want to do purpose well in your company is to look after your profit. Note that "look after" is not the same as "maximise". Ruth Hartnoll, co-founder and CEO of [Matchstick Creative](https://matchstickcreative.co.uk/), has seen what that looks like up close! In this episode of the Karmic ...
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Giving your senior team more to do
As your team gets more senior, they need to think more about the organisation than about themselves. It's one of the toughest transitions to make, and many don't. Here's what I mean. Obviously as CEO, you shouldn't overload your team, and you need to make sure there's sense (strategy, genuine ...
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The danger of our current obsession with authenticity
We have a real obsession with "authenticity" today, which I fear in many ways is a toxic one. I'm not advocating by any means that we look for lies, to pretend to be something we're not. But I fear that "authenticity" today, and certainly the way I see it being ...
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The importance of your not making (all / most) decisions
Almost every company I see where the CEO is too busy suffers from at least one of 3 key criteria not being in place. Missing any of them means that the CEO gets involved in too many decisions, often at FAR too micro a level.
- (For involved, read "making ...
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