Have the actions of Truss & Kwarteng in the UK increased the chances of a low-tax-fuelled growth, or of a debt and low-confidence fuelled recession? More importantly, whatever your opinion, have you figured out what that means for your company? Because if you’re running an SME in the UK today, although conjecture on the Big […]
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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 theme from the companies that […]
What effective collaboration to tackle climate change looks like – Harriet Lamb of Ashden
I have two firsts in this Karmic Capitalist podcast episode. First, Harriet is the first CBE to deign to accept my humble invitation to be a guest on our podcast! Second, she is also the first guest who leads a charity to guest on this show. Why a charity on he Karmic Capitalist? What has […]
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 the decision” or, more commonly, “overturning […]
“Who knew that coffee grinds sticking to Teflon would be a thing?” George May, MD of bio-bean
How challenging has it been to get your company going? I think getting a new product to market has to be one of the more challenging businesses to get going. But what if… Your product is a new formulation and needs independent scientific validation for your customers to buy it? Or you need to experiment […]