Business is a process of self-discovery — it’s important to understand the reason you’re in business far beyond making money. If you’re going to put your heart into your business, there has to be a deeper purpose that lifts your sails and propels you forward.

It’s too easy to associate personal worth with the amount of clients, sales, public engagements.

Why do we struggle to find purpose in the work we do or to connect business and purpose? Is it maybe because purpose cannot be measured?

What is a shared sense of higher purpose? What happens when there is no sense of higher purpose? How is a sense of higher purpose created?

We hear more and more often that establishing trust is the key to success. Organisations are struggling to find a way to build more trust internally and with external customers.

But what is trust? And why does it matter so much?

Innovation is not something we do rather something we are. How do we evoke the innate innovative human potential in everyone?

The first roadblock to inclusion is that we do not preserve our uniqueness instead we attempt to look like somebody else flattening diversity. Ask yourself what facets (what I call the multitudes) of yourself you have carved out in order to fit in?  We are all custodians of our multitudes, to become an advocate of inclusion start advocating your own excluded multitudes.

Integrity is what generates trust among employees, customers, shareholders and the greater world. It’s also what makes true collaboration and continuous innovation possible. 

This is the first blog post of a series in which I will explain the three pillars of ReNEWBusiness: Integrity, Inclusion, Innovation.