Helping organizations become purposeful companies through leadership, story and culture What’s the ROI of Purpose? 6 Steps to Take Toward Better Business: Why Purposeful Companies Create Value for All They Serve #BtheChange via @ConsciousCoMag — B Corporation...
Purpose should be your first priority in your triple bottom line. Many will be familiar with the "three Ps" of the concept of the triple bottom line: Profit, People, Planet My career dates back over thirty years, focussed very much on growing businesses, which does...
Introduce Business Associates. Make the introduction strong and clear Hi. My name is Tom. I'm 53, white, male, tall, straight, middle class, university educated, professionally qualified and a native English speaker from the developed world. Every single one of those...
Establishing your business and personal identity can be a complicated process. Who are you? Simple question, but identity can have many elements. Imagine you lead a business where lack of collaboration and trust is a constant struggle. "Who are you?" is a great...
Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Capital has a personal net worth reported to be over $18bn, sourced from his hugely lucrative hedge fund business. When he wrote a 7,500-word opinion piece this month called "Why (and how) capitalism needs to be reformed", this created a stir...
Ken Blanchard has a quote: "catch someone doing something right". I believe in business as a force for good, and in the righteous flywheel of purpose-lead businesses following the new triple bottom line and so creating profit for impact. I've started writing posts...
In January I wrote: "Purpose, People, Planet. The new triple bottom line." That article puts forward that it is time for a new triple bottom line, one that creates: "a “Righteous Flywheel”, where the unerring focus on Purpose+People+Planet as drivers allows the...
Recently I wrote "Doing what is right - Timpson", about a company in the UK I have admired from afar. Today a story about the corporate purpose and values of a company that I have got to know first-hand and that continues to hugely impress me with the way they live...
The phrase triple bottom line was coined in 1994, those three drivers being people, profit, planet. However, I believe it is now time for new thinking around the drivers of a corporation and removing profit as a source driver. Bold, yes, but please read on. At the...
A walk in Snowdonia: Image by Julian Calverley Over the last several months I've begun a collaboration with Alan Moore. This has, as a first step, extended to a nascent "Beautiful Community". Thsi will be the first "pebble in the pond" creating a ripple that will...
Penny McDowall Receiving the Special Olympics North America coach of the year award I just got news from Cayman that Penny McDowall passed away on New Year's Eve. The short instinctive note I sent to her husband Rod simply said: Such a loss, and such a life. An...
Photo credit Rhonda Curry At this time of year, the Western World slows down, pauses for the Christmas Season. We step off our hamster wheel of life and work, of things to do, deadlines to meet etc. In that world, has anybody ever used the line "my client is not in a...
"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet" Robert Nesta Marley So tonight I was walking through London from one meeting to another, and as I saw these arches, this particular quote from the inestimable and incomparable Bob Marley came to mind. A cold and crisp...
This week I left home one day at 1pm for a truly intense day and a half of client work, yet when I got home late the next evening I felt great at all levels. The secret? Yes, I make sure I look after myself physically (sleep, exercise, nutrition etc), I am a...
Interior of Sagrada Familia I love cathedrals and other major centres of worship, such as Sagrada Familia, Hagia Sophia, Durham Cathedral and many others. A key aspect of such buildings is that almost all of those who were part of their construction knew that they...
(c) Florian Radarte "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" also goes along with "a change is as good as a rest" I wrote some time ago in "Stop the “Busyness”": "Put simply, for leaders, less is more. Simple, yes? But how many of you just skipped over this and...
Today let me put it to you that, in many years and thousands upon thousands of hours as a coach, the single most powerful tool for coaching is Context. Today I'll talk specifically about the power for an individual of setting a personal context and three focal areas...
A story today around one of my favourite leadership phrases: A leader is someone other choose to follow The picture above is of quite the unattractive muddy pond, huh? Now imagine you are a squad of young soldiers on army training. It is cold, wet, you've been out in...
Seth Godin writes daily and has over 1,000,000 followers on his email list. I write daily and have around 1,000 email followers. Metrics. For many years a part of my work was engaged with digital marketing. So much of that was about building traffic to websites,...
This is post 300 Today is the 300th post on this site. With no plan in mind, last year I felt powerfully drawn to writing again after a long break. Not only this, I decided to commit to posting daily. I'll tell the story, then reflect on some unexpected serendipities...
Petrichor - the smell after rain hits dry ground From the Greek, Petros, meaning stone, and Ichor, meaning “the fluid that flows from the veins of the gods” Today my mind goes to this beautiful word, and, inspired by the word, also to how I felt after the rain came...
Today I woke up to see this story of a 21 year old Swedish woman taking a stand against deportation of an Afghan from her country by standing up to prevent her flight from departing. Her name is Elin Errson, and she literally took a stand for what she believed to be...
Today I'll muse on life, art and how what I have learned links to leadership in business. Romantic Idealism. First, I'll look being a romantic and idealism in leadership. Next, I'll explore what I mean by "Life in Full Colour" and then taking risks in leadership....
“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” ~ Steve Jobs Yesterday I wrote about "Commitment, Boldness and Magic" from a log cabin under majestic...
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Will Durant An absorbing, energising and inspiring conversation recently has me musing on the process and the act of writing and what it can bring to us. In that conversation, I was nudged...
One definition of Synthesising is: "combining different aspects of your ideas and research and the ideas of others in order to produce new ideas" Many synthesised ideas are captured in my writing on this site, which is driven by a purpose best stated as : “Our highest...
Leadership lessons from an elite athlete in a pro sport. Which sport ? It may surprise you.
Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers – what is an Outlier and what did he mean by the 10,000 hour rule ?
Having and stimulating your Growth mindset is key for leaders, and so investing time to read widely as well as deeply is one way to give focus to this. With that in mind, each Tuesday I post "Writing I Love". Sometimes a business book, sometimes a leadership quote,...
Leaders are often encouraged to be selfless, to be servant leaders (and other such descriptors). However, our egos are very stubborn. They resist the idea of being selfless, as that means dissolving the ego so as to be of greater service to others, to shift and...
I post every Tuesday on "Writing I Love" and every Wednesday on "Movies with Meaning". Why do I do this on a site with writings themed around leadership? As I wrote recently when reworking my home page : "I write daily posts highlighting various leaders, doers,...
Leap and the net will appear. What are you waiting for ? Sharing a success story to show you don’t need to know what the…
Musings on the power of making the most of every moment.
A story of how this phrase became a reminder to do what matters for a cadre of amazing leadership growth programme alumni
Ulysses, Helen Mirren and Modern Elders
Radical Transparency, Radical Candor, Emotional Equations and musing on LOVE as a core value in business. @chiconley @kimballScott @raydalio