The new triple bottom line, from the article "Leading from Purpose" Hard is soft. Soft is hard In working in the field of leadership (including coaching, facilitation, being a sounding board), over and over again I've heard people label anything to do with people as...
(c) Gaping Void Leverage BraveryYou are already a brave leader. You had to be to get to where you are. You are already successful, making a difference, yet remain hungry to make an even bigger “dent in the universe”. So, what’s next? At the moment, am working in the...
This week some firms have offered to pay for London staff to commute by taxi. Really? "What's good for the business is good for the individual, not the other way around" I use this phrase often with business leaders, though the context is vital, as we can look at this...
We heard endlessly during lockdown of #WFH or Work From Home. About a week ago we were threatened by the UK Government (via a national newspaper) to ‘Go back to work or risk losing your job", as if millions of people working from home were not working. This Ad then...
What does your hybrid future look like? If you have not thought about it yet, I recommend you start now. I strongly believe in remote working. However, today let me take it a level further. For now let’s call it “WorkAnywhere”, as the idea of remote working still...
So, today where I live (London) there is a definite "back to school" energy, as the symbolic public/bank holiday yesterday, Monday Aug 31st marked the end of the summer holiday/vacation period. I even saw a queue of at least 15 people mid morning today outside a shop...
A tree gives glory to god by being a tree. In other words, "Be More You." As a leader, don't try to be the perfect image of what is expected. As I write this, Wednesday, I had planned to spend much of the day writing multiple posts for this site for the coming days....
Ubuntu is an African philosophy captured in the story above as "I am because we are", about valuing community above self-interest. I love this, not least because it is also an easy way for readers to understand my philosophy around business. To add a layer, though,...
One of my favourite funny out of office emails, this one must truly torture some senders! I've always found the idea of an "out of office" email pretty absurd, particularly since around fifteen years ago when it seemed by then everyone had, first, a blackberry, then...
Disappointment = Expectation - Reality: the disappointments many are facing in this pandemic as our reality doesn't match up to our expectation. Many years ago, as a young Accountant taking up a new job, the chief executive guided me to, in my forecasting, to be...
What comes after what comes next? Antifragile by Nicholas Nassim Taleb, giving a way to thrive in a world of "The Black Swan", a book I reference in my blog early on in the pandemic, March 8th 2020, called "Act Now" As readers may know, in addition to daily blogs, I...
There is no business. There is nothing to touch, or pick up or to take a selfie with; there is nothing that exists separately that has an opinion or a life of its own. There is just us and the time we spend with each other, thinking about each other, helping each...
Hooked on short term thinking, we urgently need a sense of a longer nowRoman Krznaric , author of The Good Ancestor First, thank you to David McWilliams for his interview of Roman Krznaric on his latest weekly podcast, one that has been a regular companion to me on...
Tikkun Olam is a concept in Judaism, often interpreted as the aspiration to behave and act constructively and beneficially. Tikkun Olam Am musing on this Hebrew term, broadly meaning, dating back to some of the most ancient Jewish teachings, any activity...
What can I do to support you to do the best work of your life? Yesterday Oli Barrett asked a question on twitter: https://twitter.com/OliBarrett/status/1285897472846499840 For the full post by Oli, LinkedIn users can see it here. This brought me back to a quite...
I don't do deadline-based work. But there is one piece of deadline-based work I do continue to do. This blog. Sometimes inspiration comes and I schedule posts days in advance, most of the time I write them the night before, sometimes first thing in the morning....
Ben Brabyn At the top of the Writing page on my site, it says: "I get my best ideas from listening to people". Over the last few years, high on that list of people to listen to is Ben Brabyn, our regular meetups have always been high points in my diary. Always...
The less you do, the more valuable you are to your business. In recent months I've worked with a number of leaders who have found that, with the extra time they have had during the lockdown, they have found themselves focussing more ON their business than simply being...
While the very concept of a constraint that enables may feel like a contradiction, creating the right type of constraint can be very powerful. “What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.”Dwight D. Eisenhower Time and time again I've...
Mark Beaumont Yesterday afternoon my dear friend Mark Beaumont was kind enough to "go first" and be my very first guest on WhatComesNext.Live. For the full half hour conversation on YouTube, follow this link. For Mark's inspiring and wise final remarks, including how...
If you are ready to make changes, it is key to design, build and implement your strategy for and beyond the "window for change". Last week I wrote: "the window for change is closing", recommending: "If you can see radical changes you want to make, make them now,...
Hearing happens when we’re able to recognize a sound. Listening happens when we put in the effort to understand what it means. Yesterday I wrote: "Listen to the narrative of the other". I have been following Seth Godin and been a subscriber to his daily posts for well...
Now may not be the time to pause. Rob Poynton Am excited for the launch of our new weekly podcasts, recorded live each Tuesday afternoon UK time. For full show information and listings, visit WhatComesNext.Live. At the time of writing our first nine weekly guests are...
"The window for change is closing" I came out with this phrase earlier this week when talking to a client I am working with to make changes to some deeply ingrained ways they run their business. As with so much, those patterns had slowly and gradually evolved over...
the late, great, "yoda", Ed Percival Today is the fifth anniversary of the passing of my greatest mentor in life, Ed Percival. Naming a core page on this site BeMoreYou was done is in his memory. Ed was a real master of language, so I thought of him yesterday when in...
Sunrise at Callanish - (c) https://www.saga-photography.de/ Innovation is simply doing things differently and doing different things My simple definition of innovation. It can be as easy as working with what you have available to do things differently. Today let's...
WhatComesNext.Live is a podcast recorded and broadcast live. On each show our guest first shares their story, then together we seek to draw out actionable insights, through exploring the intersection of first having the vision to see what comes next, then finding...
Covid-19 has taught us the value of something we never noticed before. There isn’t only a value to freedom of time. There is also immense value to freedom of place.Rory Sutherland, writing in The Spectator "Have you caught the remote-working bug?" As the world of work...
A short and powerful article written in April and published in a Journal in May 2020 from people who know about human behaviour and response to pandemic threats. Image (c) Sky News When you knew lockdown was coming, did you fill your car up with petrol? I've asked...
I encourage you, as a leader, to focus on "what comes next?", in looking towards the Future. Yesterday was one of my more esoteric posts: "Musings on Time". Perhaps serendipitously, no sooner had I posted it than I had a truly inspiring and energising initial...
Recycling Lives is unique - recognised as a UK leader for combining business and charity. I truly believe in Leading from Purpose, "Putting Purpose first truly drives profit to allow you to further scale your impact." For more on the scale for impact model, visit this...
Salesforce is one company doing well and doing good. The "new triple bottom line" model from: "Leading from Purpose" I reconnected recently with a senior corporate leader who has always inspired me. They are absolutely focussed on customer experience and...
There isn’t now sufficient transparency about why certain difficult decisions are made and with people really understanding how those decisions were reached. I think a lot of it is driven by fear, without an appreciation that transparency is actually a root to better...
AirBnB is leading from purpose and building trust. From "Leading with Purpose" on the Open Leadership section of the site Over the last three days, my daily posts have focussed on Trust and an underlying issue of people not trusting their leaders in government at this...
Taking some time to look out past "what comes next" to "what comes in the future" may also support you and your energy in the present. So many people writing to give you advice on what to do, often going into great specifics. Recognise that I'm also doing the former,...
From Benedict Evans on Twitter, May 3, 2020 Though to some this may seem contradictory given the rise of populist leaders in recent years, I have felt over the last few weeks and months that one of the shifts that is already emerging is that people will value...