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 organisation trying to fix a fundamental employment paradox in the UK

The organisation trying to fix a fundamental employment paradox in the UK

We have a bit of an employment paradox in the UK. As Matt Powell, the founder and CEO of Breaking…
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Empowerment and Response in a Time of Recession and Volatility

It’s tough to make decisions and run a business with the volatility we’ve got going on around us, but there’s…
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The effective leadership team’s superpower…

… is discipline. Sure, being human, having vision, empathy, clarity, and so on – all of these are essential. But…
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Bad news may sell. But it doesn’t make things better.

Bad news may sell. But it doesn’t make things better.

What do you do if the prevailing business “sense” is very clearly saying one thing, yet your values and what…
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When things go wrong, do you fix the transaction or the relationship?

When things go wrong, do you fix the transaction or the relationship?

S**t happens. And when it happens with a client, you can choose whether you use the opportunity to genuinely make…
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Selflessness, leadership and followership

Selflessness, leadership and followership

Selfless. A word I’m hearing demanded a lot from our leaders. Whether in companies, politics, or elsewhere. And for good…
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Enough of more – we need more enough!

The most powerful but underused word is “enough”. We focus on “more”, and see “enough” as a cop-out. As us…
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Coffee and TV – growing a creative, human-focussed B Corp business

Coffee and TV – growing a creative, human-focussed B Corp business

Like probably most people who start a business, Derek Moore founded Coffee and TV because he believed that there might…
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How ready are you for whatever direction the economy takes?

Have the actions of Truss & Kwarteng in the UK increased the chances of a low-tax-fuelled growth, or of a…
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