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

The Power and Need for Indistractable

I’ve been privileged the last couple of days to go with some of my clients to 2 talks about recently…

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Profit or purpose first

You’ve seen a lot about how purpose is good for profit. It can be. Sometimes it’s not. But regardless, pursuing…

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The best business decision is the one you’ll actually follow up on

Business decisions can be hard. When it gets too hard to decide, choose the one you're most likely to do!

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Don’t be a people business. Be a business that recognises its individuals

Treat your team as individuals, rather than your company as a “people business”. I’ve been rereading two books by Oliver…

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Help your teams be impactful, not busy

I’ve sat in leadership meetings where “the boss” feels a need to ensure that everyone has actions. Strategy sessions where…

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Look after your values, and culture will follow

I’m always astonished by companies that say that culture is important, but do no work on their values. Look after…

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Dismissal is hard enough – don’t make it inhuman

The hardest thing I’ve had to do professionally was to make people redundant. It can be easy to forget how…

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Motivation by KPI

One of the dangers of our increasingly digital and data-driven world is when managers are encouraged to overuse data. This…

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Swearing isn’t unprofessional. Or is it?

Do you swear at work? Often if leaders do, they set a tone. Which is *really* unprofessional. Because people don’t…

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