Most businesses I come across, especially in the SME world, are either trying hard to get a bunch of processes in place or are living in shame because they’re not! And the ones trying to get processes in place, for a variety of avoidable reasons are usually doing so without great or sustained success. There […]
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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 have a government that is anti-immigration, and an economy that needs immigration to function at its capacity.” That’s the gap, the gap between refugees that have made it to the UK […]
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 the highest level which I think those of us running SMEs should keep focussed on. Watching politics at the help of the UK right now, you can’t help but feel that […]
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 more SMEs fail to live up to their potential is a lack of discipline. Simply not doing what they say they’re going to do. I recently worked with a number of […]
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 in diametric opposition to this? That’s the dilemma that faced my Karmic Capitalist guest on this week’s podcast, Seán Wood, CEO of Positive News. “Bad news sells”. We hear this mantra […]