Insights from the Arena

Our antidote to generic, AI-generated content. Observations, patterns, discussions and provocations of what we've seen in the arena of leading people to create successful positive businesses.

Karmic Capitalist Podcast Stories from founders and advisors to businesses with values at the heart of their commercial model. From startups to post IPOs.

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Human Insight - based on our experiences, not AI's

Being authentic is not the most important thing

Being authentic is not the most important thing

The “Be Authentic” religion has always troubled me. Dogmatic. Non-negotiable. Supreme. I don’t buy it. It’s not the most important…
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Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #7 – Comedy without the humour

We all know someone who never lets the truth get in the way of a good story. Many of us…
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Thinking and Saying is the Easy Part

Thinking and Saying is the Easy Part

Coming up with a strategy is easy. Articulating values is easy. Defining a company purpose is easy. Articulating them well…
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A Special Place to work

A New Year’s wish for all of us. There’s a Special Place to work. One that is exceptionally rare, and…
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Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #6 – No Explicit Time to Do It

Where Your Strategy Goes to Die No. 6 – Not giving it explicit time Am I the only one who…
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Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #5 – Net Zero by 2050

Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #5 – Net Zero by 2050 The challenge with Net Zero by 2050, as…
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Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #4 – The PowerPoint Cemetery

PowerPoint lures many a finely-honed strategy into its lair, where it then suffocates all life from it. And the ugliest…
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Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #3 – Playing the field

You’ve put the ring on your strategy’s finger as a leadership team. But no sooner you’ve walked out the room…
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Where your strategy goes to die #2: 30% of 10 ≠ 100% of 3

I remember sitting in a leadership team strategy awayday some years back where the team agreed on its 14 priorities.…
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