Thoughts on Strategy

If you’re serious about scaling your business, you need to get really unsexy.

If you’re after a long-term relationship with someone, you shouldn’t be trying to get jiggy every time you meet. It’s tiring, it’s tedious, it’s offensive, and even if it works,…
BoP #007 Grow your team so everyone wants to poach them

BoP #007 Grow your team so everyone wants to poach them

The quality of your team, however you measure it, is a direct reflection of the attention you’ve paid to finding, recruiting and developing them. Meaning it’s on you! It’s easy…
“Could we use technology to help the sector really accelerate its impact?” 
 Vinay Nair, CEO Lightful

“Could we use technology to help the sector really accelerate its impact?” Vinay Nair, CEO Lightful

“How can we collectively increase the quantity and quality of giving to nonprofits, to charities, so that they can raise more awareness, raise more funds, deliver more impact in their…
Leadership couples uncertainty and impact

Leadership couples uncertainty and impact

OK, so we are neither Presidents of the USA or Prime Ministers of the UK. However, I couldn’t help but think of these snippets in tandem – one from Obama’s…
The final judgement is “Does it Feel good?” – Alex Holliman, CEO of Climbing Trees

The final judgement is “Does it Feel good?” – Alex Holliman, CEO of Climbing Trees

So you’re running an ethical agency. A criminal organisation posing as a listed company – let’s call them Belgian Australian Tobacco – approaches you. “We fund an ‘anti-smoking education programme’…

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