Are you loading up your company with policies? So often I see SMEs feeling like they need to add a detailed policy for expenses, another for travel, for mobile phones, for toilet paper folding, male sandal-wearing and on and on and on. Sometimes, a policy makes sense. But often, sense makes more sense. This welcome […]
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As CEO, would you trust your team to set your pay? Henry Stewart, CEO of Happy Ltd
Trust – much aspired to within companies – starts at the top. The more you trust your team, the more of a trusting culture you will build. Henry Stewart, CEO of Happy Ltd, took that to a place very few would be willing to go. At pay review time for the company, he asked his […]
We don’t find purpose. We create it.
We don’t find purpose or meaning. We create them. The beauty and power of that is that it means we get to choose. Admittedly, in some circumstances, purpose is thrust on us. And our context also shapes our thinking. But in the end, we choose. (if we choose to!) One of the conversations I love […]
Would you sack your biggest client to keep your team happy? – Richard Clarke of Secret Source
Would you sack your biggest client if they were making your team unhappy? Create a BIG hole in your revenue and profit? Actually put some of your team at risk due to the financial hit? “We want our team to be happy”. Pretty much every company says this at some level. And in the inimitable […]
What price your values?
What price for your values? Seriously, if you run a company, and were asked, what price would you put on your values? If you’re the CEO or MD of a company, you WILL be called on to put a price. Almost certainly first by your team. Most likely, it will come from sales. “We have […]