This episode of #TheKarmicCapitalist podcast is so back-to-back full of real life, practical lessons that it was nigh-on impossible to fit it into our standard time limit. But that’s no surprise. Neal Gandhi and his team have taken The Panoply from a standing start to a publicly listed, £1/4 of a billion company in less […]
Leadership
The power of values for simplifying
Clear Values Simplify. Company values should do 3 things. Align: clear expectations make decisions easier and more delegatable; Attract: aligned customers, team members and investors; Inspire: creates a platform and belief for positive change. A while back, I was talking to a client about the role of values for his team. He’s one of the […]
Tony’s on a mission to bring power to Africa – Renewables in Africa
“We’d like to fully electrify Africa by 2040, with renewable energy at its core”. That’s the vision that Tony Tiyou had when he set up Renewables in Africa (RiA), his engineering, consulting and media organisation. The trigger was seeing a satellite image showing the distribution of power across the planet, and seeing that Africa, was […]
The best companies are communities
With all the talk of servant leadership, we forget the need for servant followership. And that all of that service is to the community. Companies that create the most good run like well functioning communities. And thriving communities work because the collective interest of *all* (aka purpose), is more important than the sum of often […]
BHAG? Remove half a billion tons of carbon emissions every year
Jan Rippingale’s ambitions were never small. At an early age, Jan was looking first to be an astronaut. On the way to president. Ironically, working with John Glenn turned her ambitions away from this, and more towards using technology to create impact. Her chosen area of impact is to reduce our carbon footprint. And her […]