As far as BHAGs go, Eliminating Global Healthcare Inequalities has got to be out there with the best. Though Alphalake being a British company, it’s a little more modest. “To work towards global health equality.” This is just the fourth part of a strong mission, which aside from being a key part of founder Olly […]
Leadership
If you’re frustrated with your leadership team, the feeling’s probably mutual!
“It annoys me how often I need to tell my leadership team what to do. But if I don’t, they just won’t do the right thing.” (How to upset everyone in one fell swoop. But it needs saying, so here goes…) If you’re a CEO frustrated with your leadership team (LT), I’ll bet they’re also […]
“I think I’ve just paid £50,000 for a word I already knew”
Many CEOs call their companies “people companies”. Occasionally they mean it! Far more occasionally still, it translates into every sinew of a company’s being. Answer Digital comes about as close as you can get within the tech consulting sector. I don’t know what perks they offer, or if they’ve latched on to the latest must-shout-about […]
If you don’t like choosing between horrible and cataclysmic, don’t become CEO.
Hard choices often end up in one of two ugly places: Analysis paralysis – no decision, but just an ongoing slow pain, or flip-flopping decisions – often depending on who you’re speaking to. I’ve seen this a lot in many leaders, including CEOs. Sometimes, it’s because the choices are genuinely difficult to compare. Other times […]
Peter takes his values from Catholic school in Hungary to becoming Deepak Chopra’s digital partner in San Diego
Peter Tiszavolgyi’s company, Stylers Group, started with a couple of mates at uni in Budapest. It’s grown into a 50+ person company that is Deepak Chopra’s digital partner in San Diego. Not your typical trajectory from a recently ex-Communist country.In this episode of the Karmic Capitalist podcast, Peter shares some of the lessons which have […]