If you’re running a company, and especially if you’re running a company you founded, I have one question for you. Why are you doing it? Seriously. Why do you do what you do? What are your top 1,2 or 3 reasons? If high up in your reasons you don’t have some variation of “to create […]
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“You’re not eating chocolate. You’re eating sugar” – Nirali and Jag of Superfoodio
Pleasure, people and planet. Is that the tagline for a new line of eco-friendly 18-30 holidays? Not exactly. Pleasure, people and planet comprise the driving mission behind Superfoodio, the wife-and-husband founded ethical plant-based treats company. In this episode of the Karmic Capitalist, I talk to Jag and Nirali about their journey from seeing quite how […]
The squirrel’s guide to making your strategic goals happen
What can a squirrel tell us about meeting our strategic goals? (Stay with me – this isn’t a post to just get pictures of a squirrel onto my blog – honest!) I don’t know about your garden, but in mine, we have strategic geniuses for squirrels. And I was handed a lesson over the weekend […]
Why does your company exist? And why you should care
Why does your company exist? Really. Aside from you, who’d miss it if it disappeared tomorrow? Your team will find other jobs. Your customers other suppliers. Welcome to the world of purpose. If the key impact your company is having is to increase your bank balance (and even then, only if you’re running it effectively), […]
Controlling your business as it scales is about letting go
So often in businesses that are scaling up, CEOs feel like they don’t have control (even if they don’t admit it). And their instinctive response is precisely the wrong one. Controlling more. Scaling a business is about scaling the people within it. Your business scales when your people (including you) do. What does that mean? […]