Leaders should not empower their teams. We should not empower women. We should not empower under-represented minorities. As far back as I can recall, I’ve struggled with this word. Empower, for me, carries deep connotations of giving someone power. Of patronising people with power. But I don’t believe you can give someone power. What you can […]
Leadership
How business fits into History, Anthropology, Climate, Society and what to do about it!
“We have everything we need to fix things and make it better for everyone in the world… Perhaps not the billionaires.” Can business leaders make a serious dent in climate change? Mark Maslin, UCL professor of Sustainability, company founder of Rezatec and author of “How to Save Our Planet – the Facts“, believes that we can […]
We donated 16% of our time to charities in 2020
Purpose can be a real facilitator for growth and profitability. And in turn, growth increases your ability to make impact, while profitability allows the business to serve at a higher level. It’s a wonderfully virtuous cycle when you get it right. A beautiful case study of this is Hyphen8, a Salesforce consultancy with a focus on […]
“How do you drive the endless supply of money that is business into doing good?” – Neal Gandhi of The Panoply
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 […]
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 […]