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 […]
Leadership
Self help and save the planet snakeoil
Watching the promises made at COP26 fritter away brings to mind the similarities between it and most company strategy awaydays and self-help retreats. One of the things that most of the multi-$Bn self-help industry knows is that it’s easier to sell a dream than the hard work to do it. And that people can come […]
Marketing has fuelled ill in the world. It can do better.
Marketing has been responsible for sooo many of the ills we’re suffering in today’s world. Overconsumption is the biggie. Encapsulated in the perceptive statement that “we buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like”. Personally, I think in many ways, marketing just amplifies what already exists in […]
As CEO, would you trust your team to set your pay? Henry Stewart, CEO of Happy Ltd
Trust – much aspired to within companies – starts at the top. The more you trust your team, the more of a trusting culture you will build. Henry Stewart, CEO of Happy Ltd, took that to a place very few would be willing to go. At pay review time for the company, he asked his […]
We don’t find purpose. We create it.
We don’t find purpose or meaning. We create them. The beauty and power of that is that it means we get to choose. Admittedly, in some circumstances, purpose is thrust on us. And our context also shapes our thinking. But in the end, we choose. (if we choose to!) One of the conversations I love […]