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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Bill Gates wanted to stuff it to IBM

As far as BHAGs go, Eliminating Global Healthcare Inequalities has got to be out there with the best. Though Alphalake being a British company, ...
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If you’re frustrated with your leadership team, the feeling’s probably mutual!

"It annoys me how often I need to tell my leadership team what to do. But if I don't, they just won't do the ...
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“I think I’ve just paid £50,000 for a word I already knew”

Many CEOs call their companies "people companies". Occasionally they mean it! Far more occasionally still, it translates into every sinew of a company's being ...
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If you don’t like choosing between horrible and cataclysmic, don’t become CEO.

Hard choices often end up in one of two ugly places:

Analysis paralysis - no decision, but just an ongoing slow pain, or

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 ...
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Hire the right people, and then trust them

People problems in companies tend to boil down to one of two things. Wrong people hired, or right people hired, but then not empowered ...
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