Thoughts, News and Views

The Good that comes when your business model aligns perfectly with your purpose – Tumelo’s Georgia Stewart

Stepping up to meet the global challenges we face today is going to need concerted action from us in all the various roles we ...
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Is your sustainability certificate greenwash, limited, or expansive?

Is your sustainability certificate really making a difference? How deep does it go? Has it helped shape your commercial strategy? I see a lot ...
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It’s not about empowerment

Leaders should not empower their teams. We should not empower women. We should not empower under-represented minorities. As far back as I can recall, ...
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How business fits into History, Anthropology, Climate, Society and what to do about it!

"We have everything we need to fix things and make it better for everyone in the world... Perhaps not the billionaires." Can business leaders ...
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We donated 16% of our time to charities in 2020

Purpose can be a real facilitator for growth and profitability. And in turn, growth increases your ability to make impact, while profitability allows the business ...
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Don’t build a mansion on cardboard foundations

I'm stunned sometimes by how often the basics get overlooked and then bite your business in the most painful way. Founders are often visionaries ...
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“How do you drive the endless supply of money that is business into doing good?” – Neal Gandhi of The Panoply

This episode of #TheKarmicCapitalist podcast is so back-to-back full of real life, practical lessons that it was nigh-on impossible to fit it into our ...
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The power of values for simplifying

Clear Values Simplify. Company values should do 3 things. Align: clear expectations make decisions easier and more delegatable; Attract: aligned customers, team members and ...
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Tony’s on a mission to bring power to Africa – Renewables in Africa

"We'd like to fully electrify Africa by 2040, with renewable energy at its core".That's the vision that Tony Tiyou had when he set up ...
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The best companies are communities

With all the talk of servant leadership, we forget the need for servant followership. And that all of that service is to the community ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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