Protect & Build Better

We've been dealt a crisis and an opportunity. The crisis is something we tragically see all around us, with its clear impact on health, lives and livelihoods.

But we also have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rethink business, and figure out how we can create successful commercial models that serve a bigger, more human and more conscious purpose.

"Protect and Build Better" is a framework for maximising the probability of survival through the crisis and recession, while at the same time building a forward-looking, profitable and purpose-led organisation. Here are its high level principles and the story that shaped it. The story where we nearly lost our company coming out of the crisis.

Bite size reflections on leading through this crisis

Would you give your shares away? It’s about more than karma

Ben Brabyn's had a fascinating career across multiple touchpoints with entrepreneurship. He's ... set up and sold his own company; represented entrepreneurs for global investment at the DTI; headed Level39, London's biggest fintech entrepreneurship hub; created a company to connect entrepreneurs to people who wouldn't typically inhabit that world. This ... Read More

BHAG? Remove half a billion tons of carbon emissions every year

Jan Rippingale's ambitions were never small. At an early age, Jan was looking first to be an astronaut. On the way to president. Ironically, working with John Glenn turned her ambitions away from this, and more towards using technology to create impact. Her chosen area of impact is to reduce ... Read More

Heading back to the business of business is business

Is the business of business just business? And if so, how far does "business" go? Are benefits business? Internal committees? I've always been a fan of the ethos of Basecamp. I love how they simplify. I really like their readiness to do the things that make sense, rather than the ... Read More

In plateaus, do you learn or do you defend?

Plateaus are insidious. Because although they're not a good place to be, there's not so much pain that you rip off the plaster to do something different. There are some common patterns in most companies that hit The Plateau... ... There's always a good reason why doing things differently won't ... Read More

If you’re giggling every time you say your values, probably time for a rethink

Red Badger is one of the UK's most successful digital transformation agencies. Founded by 3 friends coming out of Conchango, a successful previous generation agency, they decided they wanted to do things better. At the heart of that ambition was to do two simple things. First, deliver significant change and ... Read More

Peter takes his values from Catholic school in Hungary to becoming Deepak Chopra’s digital partner in San Diego

Peter Tiszavolgyi's company, Stylers Group, started with a couple of mates at uni in Budapest. It's grown into a 50+ person company that is Deepak Chopra's digital partner in San Diego. Not your typical trajectory from a recently ex-Communist country.
In this episode of the Karmic Capitalist podcast, Peter shares some ... Read More

Teams are good, but networks make them stronger

Suppose for a minute that there's this country with a government comprised largely of an old boys' network from the same schools, universities and degrees. Crazy, but just suppose. That's the kind of scenario that (rightly) gives networks get a bad rep. But inside a company, networks can create real ... Read More

Eric Edmeades shares how to inject passion into your accountants (and grow a few multi-million $ businesses along the way)

Eric Edmeades is a master story-teller. This week's episode of the Karmic Capitalist isn’t just packed full of sage moments, but is just... plain... fun. From parents rebelling against apartheid in South Africa, to blowing things up for a living, to taking on the food industry - it’s one heck ... Read More

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