Technology is amazing. And its possibilities are boundless. Which is a source of hope and trepidation. As we marvel at where AI is going, as ChatGPT wakes us up to a new horizon of possibility, we so need… to….. pause. I remember the initially exciting, then disturbing feeling a while back with the unerring accuracy […]
Purpose
Recession is like skiing
Skiing is like navigating strategy. It’s end of quarter. And I’m going through quarterly strategic planning with most of the CEOs I’m working with. And as it’s nearing the end of an annually shorter ski season (thank you fossil fuels et al), I was just thinking about a principle I had to learn the hard […]
How to pivot and stay true to your company’s purpose – Dr Thomas Fudge, CEO of Wase
This episode of the Karmic Capitalist tells the story of a company that stayed true to its mission while undergoing a substantial pivot, and a founder who left his own comfortable path in pursuit of his passion. For sanitation! Thomas Fudge was so incensed by our misuse and abuse of water that left his job […]
From Chris Froome to wellness in your office – Phill Bell CEO of Art Health Solutions
From Chris Froome to wellness in your office. That’s the journey that Phill Bell and Paul Smith undertook to co-founding ART Health, a company that helps employees and employers to improve workplace wellbeing using evidence-based techniques. It was fascinating to have Phill join me on this edition of the Karmic Capitalist podcast to share the […]
Mission turns our diversity from divisiveness to strength
Back in the 1950s, after US presidential elections when pollsters asked citizens who didn’t vote for the winning candidate what their reaction was, the responses tended to be along the lines of “He’s our president, I wish him well”. Today, this cannot be said of most citizens of either the US or the UK. So […]