Is your sustainability certificate really making a difference? How deep does it go? Has it helped shape your commercial strategy? I see a lot of companies now brandishing their sustainability credentials. And that’s a good thing. In my view sometimes even when it’s greenwash (see earlier post). But your sustainability can come from so many […]
Protect & Build Better
How business fits into History, Anthropology, Climate, Society and what to do about it!
“We have everything we need to fix things and make it better for everyone in the world… Perhaps not the billionaires.” Can business leaders make a serious dent in climate change? Mark Maslin, UCL professor of Sustainability, company founder of Rezatec and author of “How to Save Our Planet – the Facts“, believes that we can […]
We donated 16% of our time to charities in 2020
Purpose can be a real facilitator for growth and profitability. And in turn, growth increases your ability to make impact, while profitability allows the business to serve at a higher level. It’s a wonderfully virtuous cycle when you get it right. A beautiful case study of this is Hyphen8, a Salesforce consultancy with a focus on […]
Don’t build a mansion on cardboard foundations
I’m stunned sometimes by how often the basics get overlooked and then bite your business in the most painful way. Founders are often visionaries. We have a dream of what we want to build. We have strategies. Purpose. Missions. Challenge is that the business needs to be continually fuelled while we build. And often, that […]
“How do you drive the endless supply of money that is business into doing good?” – Neal Gandhi of The Panoply
This episode of #TheKarmicCapitalist podcast is so back-to-back full of real life, practical lessons that it was nigh-on impossible to fit it into our standard time limit. But that’s no surprise. Neal Gandhi and his team have taken The Panoply from a standing start to a publicly listed, £1/4 of a billion company in less […]