“It annoys me how often I need to tell my leadership team what to do. But if I don’t, they just won’t do the right thing.” (How to upset everyone in one fell swoop. But it needs saying, so here goes…) If you’re a CEO frustrated with your leadership team (LT), I’ll bet they’re also […]
“I think I’ve just paid £50,000 for a word I already knew”
Many CEOs call their companies “people companies”. Occasionally they mean it! Far more occasionally still, it translates into every sinew of a company’s being. Answer Digital comes about as close as you can get within the tech consulting sector. I don’t know what perks they offer, or if they’ve latched on to the latest must-shout-about […]
If you don’t like choosing between horrible and cataclysmic, don’t become CEO.
Hard choices often end up in one of two ugly places: Analysis paralysis – no decision, but just an ongoing slow pain, or flip-flopping decisions – often depending on who you’re speaking to. I’ve seen this a lot in many leaders, including CEOs. Sometimes, it’s because the choices are genuinely difficult to compare. Other times […]
Peter takes his values from Catholic school in Hungary to becoming Deepak Chopra’s digital partner in San Diego
Peter Tiszavolgyi’s company, Stylers Group, started with a couple of mates at uni in Budapest. It’s grown into a 50+ person company that is Deepak Chopra’s digital partner in San Diego. Not your typical trajectory from a recently ex-Communist country.In this episode of the Karmic Capitalist podcast, Peter shares some of the lessons which have […]
Hire the right people, and then trust them
People problems in companies tend to boil down to one of two things. Wrong people hired, or right people hired, but then not empowered. We need to both (1) hire the right people to bet on, and; (2) place our bet. Doing either of those well isn’t easy. But I see so many businesses ruin […]