For business to be better, we (i.e. humans) need to be better. The way most companies have been doing business in the last few decades has been having a glaringly detrimental impact on society and the environment. If we’re to pull it back, we need to do it quickly. Tom Rippin is a systems thinker. In […]
Management
Is mental health a concern in your company?
Mental health is a minefield for CEOs to deal with. {Disclaimer – I am not a mental health professional. Someone will likely tell me that this post is irresponsible. But it comes from real conversations with real CEOs dealing with real people. It also comes from genuine concern that our resilience and ability to grow […]
Do you control your team or bring out the best in them?
Are you going to be the CEO who controls your team or the one who brings out the best in them? Because both actually need the same foundation. Both require a framework and direction to be effective. The challenge is that many of us “nice” people misinterpret bringing out the best in people as simply […]
The importance of your not making (all / most) decisions
Almost every company I see where the CEO is too busy suffers from at least one of 3 key criteria not being in place. Missing any of them means that the CEO gets involved in too many decisions, often at FAR too micro a level. (For involved, read “making the decision” or, more commonly, “overturning […]
Each policy you add is a small nail in the trust coffin
Are you loading up your company with policies? So often I see SMEs feeling like they need to add a detailed policy for expenses, another for travel, for mobile phones, for toilet paper folding, male sandal-wearing and on and on and on. Sometimes, a policy makes sense. But often, sense makes more sense. This welcome […]