… 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 […]
Leadership
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 […]
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 […]
Enough of more – we need more enough!
The most powerful but underused word is “enough”. We focus on “more”, and see “enough” as a cop-out. As us not being ambitious. The trouble with “more” is that it is infinite. It never stops. With a “more” attitude, having more just makes you want more. And wanting more leads to working more. To consuming […]
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 […]