So you’re running an ethical agency. A criminal organisation posing as a listed company – let’s call them Belgian Australian Tobacco – approaches you. “We fund an ‘anti-smoking education programme’ along with some of our other friends. But the challenge is that it’s not as easy to find us on the web as it is […]
Founders and Owners
How to pivot and stay true to your company’s purpose – Dr Thomas Fudge, CEO of Wase
This episode of the Karmic Capitalist tells the story of a company that stayed true to its mission while undergoing a substantial pivot, and a founder who left his own comfortable path in pursuit of his passion. For sanitation! Thomas Fudge was so incensed by our misuse and abuse of water that left his job […]
From Chris Froome to wellness in your office – Phill Bell CEO of Art Health Solutions
From Chris Froome to wellness in your office. That’s the journey that Phill Bell and Paul Smith undertook to co-founding ART Health, a company that helps employees and employers to improve workplace wellbeing using evidence-based techniques. It was fascinating to have Phill join me on this edition of the Karmic Capitalist podcast to share the […]
What if growth isn’t the strategy?
Could your strategy be not to double your business / kill the opposition / become the biggest / ….. ? I was given an interesting dilemma by a CEO who I once worked with. He’d done the work with his leadership team to bring control to their operations – the first layer of our Build […]
Me first
For all the talk of servant leadership, in society at large, our focus is increasingly on “me first”. But if we actively participate in and feed a culture where it’s all about me – my daily photo to share with you all, my obsession with me time, put yourself first, look after you because no […]