Eric Edmeades is a master story-teller. This week’s episode of the Karmic Capitalist isn’t just packed full of sage moments, but is just… plain… fun. From parents rebelling against apartheid in South Africa, to blowing things up for a living, to taking on the food industry – it’s one heck of a ride. Adventure, purpose […]
Purpose
In world of uncertainty, leaders need to lean on confidence
In the uncertain world we live in, effective leadership bridges the gap to certainty with humble confidence. Today’s high levels of uncertainty are a hangover-inducing mix of at least these 4 factors: increasing interdependencies which make the consequences of our decisions less predictable; fragility as we’ve been sacrificing all redundancy and contingency at the altar […]
Ask not what purpose can do for your profit
With a nod towards JFK… Ask not what purpose can do for your profits, but what your profits can do to serve your purpose. There’s a lot of talk about how purpose makes your company more profitable. With all due respect, that’s a pile of horseploppy. Purpose \*can\* enhance your profitability. But I also know […]
Build Back Better means Build Back Kinder
Build back better means build back kinder. With a special responsibility if you lead a company. With talk of a K-shaped recovery, where fortunes ascend for some while they plummet for others, it’s up to all on the ascendant leg of the K to look out for those on the descendent. Not (just) out of […]
Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood.
“Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood” I love that quote from Josh Waitzkin’s ‘The Art of Learning’. He was applying it to how we display mastery as we learn, and I alluded to this previously when discussing how leaders who are at ease with their leadership and values can adapt fairly quickly […]