Dec 14, 2019Your most important decision for your startup to solve our climate emergencyDo you want to deliver even more effective results against the climate emergency? Or any of the 17 sustainable development goals? Are you working towards a circular, regenerative or blue economy? Are you about to found, or are you already in a startup? Are you in an existing business, whether…Climate Change3 min read
Nov 23, 2019How you can still be sold todayI awoke this morning to this headline from the Guardian: “‘We were sold off’: WeWork’s support staff face uncertain future as company collapses” Update for Covid-19 times: many companies have begun laying of staff without any discussion with the staff, nor with the customers and suppliers; and without them having…Entrepreneurship3 min read
Nov 22, 2019Your four layers of freedom — or not.In some aspects of your life you have freedom, but in other aspects you are subject to constraints. You’re subject to four layers of constraint, if you’re part of our modern economy. Little is fully in your circles of control or influence; most is outside your circle of influence. Your…Economyleaderu3 min read
Oct 27, 2019PEOPLE WRITE STORIES; STORIES WRITE PEOPLE’S BEHAVIOUR — World Values DayEverything you say or do comes out of your meaning-making stories. All of your behaviours. These meaning-making stories are how you answer the questions “What does this mean, and therefore who should I do what for?” If people’s behaviour; your own, your colleagues, or a nation’s collective behaviour; is not…Leadership4 min read
Oct 21, 2019The one critical choice you must take to retire well in a climate crisis world.Have you invested money for your retirement? Are you lucky enough to have a defined benefit pension plan? Or any kind of pension plan? Have you chosen investments that are working to destroy your retirement? If you are to have any chance of a comfortable retirement, you need to choose…Retirement3 min read
Oct 13, 2019One simple choice for your startup to be part of the climate crisis solutionDo you want to be part of the solution to the climate crisis, and 17 sustainable development goals? Are you working in a startup, or about to start up? Chances are you will make the same choice almost everyone else has made, and unwittingly be trapped in a spider’s web…Climate Change3 min read
Jul 7, 2019Failing gracefullyBeauty is in the eye of the beholder. Marmalade coloured cats, never hippos win my animal beauty pageant. But that hippo’s mum thinks baby hippo is the most beautiful being ever. Nature disagrees with both of us; nature sees cats and hippos as integral parts of life on the planet…Entrepreneur3 min read
Jul 1, 2019Why you should never try to change yourselfMost of my life I’ve tried to change myself. For example, to fix my problems with depression. Eliminate the times when I was depressed. I’ve realised it’s so much better to focus on transformation, rather than change. The difference: change, or fixing problems, is limited to becoming what I can…Life Lessons3 min read
May 28, 2019The hidden reason why work cannot work for you, nor for our planet.Four steps for business to work for all: from wealth generation through human fulfilment to the climate crisis and all SDG — Lessons from ending apartheid Summary: The choices companies make are less determined by the organisation design and their leader’s individual values, and more by the way the company…Climate Change12 min read