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Does your business need great people or great processes?

Most businesses I come across, especially in the SME world, are either trying hard to get a bunch of processes in place or are ...
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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 Barriers, puts it "We ...
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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 one business priority at ...
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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 the place I've seen ...
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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 the world needs are ...
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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 a difference, or to ...
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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 reason. When you're in ...
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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 not being ambitious. The ...
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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 be a better way ...
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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 debt and low-confidence fuelled ...
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Your team may not need a big purpose

Purpose in business is real. Everyone needs it. But not everyone needs it in the way that the purpose-brigade preaches. A cringemaking story that ...
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When was the last time you gave your $Bn company to a charity?

Yvon Chouinard’s donation of Patagonia to an environmental charity was as stunning as it was not unexpected from him. But it created a moment ...
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