Bite Sized Business Tips

What price for your values? Seriously, if you run a company, and were asked, what price would you put on your values? If you're the CEO or MD of a company, you WILL be called on to put a price. Almost certainly first by your team. Most likely, it will ...
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One of the hardest challenges for CEOs who take their role seriously is the need to continually shine a light, to show a destination, to create hope. And to do that whatever is happening in the world around you. The challenge is that leaders are human too. Yes, vulnerability is ...
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Everyone has blind spots, and CEOs are no different. One of the biggies is forgetting that you're the only one at the top of the tree. Even in a company with a flat structure, you're still the one who will be deferred to for the biggest decisions. And usually for ...
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Lists are the most underused and undervalued weapon in building companies and bringing control to them. I use them (with a particular structure) for executing strategy, for managing improvements to a company, for monitoring its health, and to manage operational pulse – the four process layers in our Build on ...
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Brilliant ideas are what separate great CEOs from average ones.Not.Most CEOs, and most often founder CEOs, are the visionaries in their companies. And for good reason - it takes some form of vision to start a company in the first place.But most new companies go to ground within the first ...
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Every so often, your company may donate to charity. And that's fantastic. But what if you committed to give 3% of your sales revenue come what may?Including if you were making a loss?Brave? Foolhardy? Or simply committed to do good?It might even make you think about your business differently.In this ...
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One of the most unspoken pressures I see in CEOs comes from the feeling that you need to have the answers.You're the boss. People turn to you for an answer. You give it.The challenge is that if it's as linear as that - if people look to you for an ...
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If you're running a company, and especially if you're running a company you founded, I have one question for you. Why are you doing it? Seriously. Why do you do what you do? What are your top 1,2 or 3 reasons? If high up in your reasons you don't have ...
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Pleasure, people and planet. Is that the tagline for a new line of eco-friendly 18-30 holidays?Not exactly. Pleasure, people and planet comprise the driving mission behind Superfoodio, the wife-and-husband founded ethical plant-based treats company.In this episode of the Karmic Capitalist, I talk to Jag and Nirali about their journey from ...
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What can a squirrel tell us about meeting our strategic goals? (Stay with me - this isn't a post to just get pictures of a squirrel onto my blog - honest!) I don't know about your garden, but in mine, we have strategic geniuses for squirrels. And I was handed ...
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Why does your company exist? Really. Aside from you, who'd miss it if it disappeared tomorrow? Your team will find other jobs. Your customers other suppliers. Welcome to the world of purpose. If the key impact your company is having is to increase your bank balance (and even then, only ...
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So often in businesses that are scaling up, CEOs feel like they don't have control (even if they don't admit it). And their instinctive response is precisely the wrong one.Controlling more.Scaling a business is about scaling the people within it. Your business scales when your people (including you) do.What does ...
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