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 then used your P&L in […]
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 theme from the companies that […]
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 best in people as simply […]
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 leadership team, or as a […]
“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 Capitalist podcast, she tells the […]