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

Accept bad behaviour to make it your culture

For “new behaviour model” read values or purpose. I don’t think I’ve worked in or supported a company that hasn’t…

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Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #1 – A wish-list of serious sounding business words

Here are 3 strategic objectives I’ve seen more than once: Employee engagement Marketing Customer retention Trouble is they’re not strategic…

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“Police stab vests are not built for humans with breasts”

Caroline Criado Perez is sadly spot on to highlight that we are collectively undervaluing both paid and unpaid work by…

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The importance of the internal compass

“Our ambition should not be to win, then, but to play with our full effort. Our intention is not to…

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You don’t lead organisations. You lead people.

You don’t lead organisations. You lead people. Obvious, but so often forgotten. I know many CEOs who are at heart…

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Are you a mini-Boris? Am I? Are we all?

On climate, on social issues, on using business for good – are we all mini-Borises? Boris’s climate policies and plans…

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Not quite “Don’t Look Up” – but not unlike it either

I’ve often seen companies (and their teams) suffer unduly from something that was foreseen, planned for, but then not averted.…

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Guaranteed business failure

You can absolutely do things guaranteed to make your business fail. But unfortunately, there aren’t things you can do which…

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Where’s joy in the remote office?

Joy. You can feel the places that have it, and the ones that don’t. It’s not about en enforced fun…

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