Thoughts, News and Views
Vulnerability can be a destructive force
Vulnerability's not all motherhood and apple pie. There are some really destructive ways that it can show up. And no more so if you're ...
Maslow had a thing or two to say about recruiting and growing the best team
In SMEs that are growing strongly, the attraction is often the founder. Their vision. Their strength of personality. Their passion.All of which is essential ...
Helping people overcome loneliness – Faisal Shaikh CEO MyBabble
Very few businesses have the level or resonance and commitment from founders more than those whose origins came from personal tragedy.MyBabble was born after ...
BoP #006 Recruit so they don’t want to leave
When you recruit, you're naturally looking for the person who's best for the job you're recruiting for. If you're building a company that's in ...
“Could we use technology to help the sector really accelerate its impact?” Vinay Nair, CEO Lightful
"How can we collectively increase the quantity and quality of giving to nonprofits, to charities, so that they can raise more awareness, raise more ...
“We’re helping people on a fundamental level to be more sustainable” Hussein Allawi, Founder the Sustainability Show
From the high-stakes financial environment of the now defunct Lehman Brothers ("buy-and-sell in its most aggressive manner") to putting on a show of some ...
BoP #005 I inherited a team that was bankrupting us
Not because salaries were too high, but because the team was walking out the door. After my first company was acquired, I took on ...
LinkedIn is telling your employees not to be loyal to you
They're telling everyone that their employer doesn't care about them. There are two agendas at play here. First, bad news gets noticed. If I ...
You’re standing on the edge of an impossibly high bridge overlooking a ravine.
You've got a bungee rope tethered to you. And I reassure you that the bungee has its limit at precisely your weight. Precisely. Optimised ...
BoP #004 Imposter syndrome is the greatest leadership fake
There's a great entrepreneurship analogy attributed to Toby Thomas EnSuite CEO. He talks about a man who's riding a lion. All around him, everyone's ...
The great fake is imposter syndrome.
There's a real irony about "Imposter Syndrome".In the VAST MAJORITY of cases, it's a fake syndrome.Here's what a syndrome is (straight from the dictionary):1) ...
BoP #003 When being a good leader collides with being an authentic one, choose good
Heresy time... ... Beware the trap of authenticity.... ... or, to be more precise, especially if you lead, make sure you're not being authentic ...
