Most businesses I come across, especially in the SME world, are either trying hard to get a bunch of processes in place or are living in shame because they’re not! And the ones trying to get processes in place, for a variety of avoidable reasons are usually doing so without great or sustained success. There […]
Execution
The effective leadership team’s superpower…
… is discipline. Sure, being human, having vision, empathy, clarity, and so on – all of these are essential. But the place I’ve seen more SMEs fail to live up to their potential is a lack of discipline. Simply not doing what they say they’re going to do. I recently worked with a number of […]
Bad news may sell. But it doesn’t make things better.
What do you do if the prevailing business “sense” is very clearly saying one thing, yet your values and what the world needs are in diametric opposition to this? That’s the dilemma that faced my Karmic Capitalist guest on this week’s podcast, Seán Wood, CEO of Positive News. “Bad news sells”. We hear this mantra […]
How ready are you for whatever direction the economy takes?
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 […]
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 […]