We have a bit of an employment paradox in the UK. As Matt Powell, the founder and CEO of Breaking Barriers, puts it “We have a government that is anti-immigration, and an economy that needs immigration to function at its capacity.” That’s the gap, the gap between refugees that have made it to the UK […]
Culture
When things go wrong, do you fix the transaction or the relationship?
S**t happens. And when it happens with a client, you can choose whether you use the opportunity to genuinely make a difference, or to abuse it. We’ve recently returned from visiting stunning Croatia. While on Hvar, we’d booked a small boat for the day – my son is a licenced boat driver (I’ve heard the […]
Selflessness, leadership and followership
Selfless. A word I’m hearing demanded a lot from our leaders. Whether in companies, politics, or elsewhere. And for good reason. When you’re in a position of power, it’s your responsibility to think of those whose support you need to achieve (hopefully positive and purposeful) goals. But I hear it a lot less as an […]
Coffee and TV – growing a creative, human-focussed B Corp business
Like probably most people who start a business, Derek Moore founded Coffee and TV because he believed that there might be a better way to do things than how it was being done in the industry. Key for him was that there had to be a better model than pushing people to work harder for […]
Your team may not need a big purpose
Purpose in business is real. Everyone needs it. But not everyone needs it in the way that the purpose-brigade preaches. A cringemaking story that does the rounds is the one about bricklayers working on a cathedral. I’m ashamed to say I probably used it in the past. Here’s a straight cut-n-paste from one (typical) version […]