Next time you find yourself saying I did fail, please pause and ask yourself: "Did I fail as a person or my plans failed?"
Read moreCan Capitalism be Conscious?
What would happen if we’d measure the performance of our economy based on people’s well-being and not solely on consumption? What would happen if we would ask children, as our main stakeholders, to evaluate our business performance?
Read moreTelling is Listening
Ten years ago, Clare and David Hieatt started the Do Lectures with a simple aim: To gather together the world’s Doers – disruptors and change makers, experts and pioneers – to share their stories, and encourage others to go and Do.
I think they did it!
Read moreDoes your business have HeART?
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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.
Read moreWhat is your personal worth?
It’s too easy to associate personal worth with the amount of clients, sales, public engagements.
Read moreWhat gets measured gets done
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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?
Read moreTo be or not to be? The dilemma of impact or profit
Napkin sketch by Fateme Banishoeib (me).
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?
Read moreYou want trust but all you get is compliance
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?
Read moreInnovating leadership for the future of business
Innovation is not something we do rather something we are. How do we evoke the innate innovative human potential in everyone?
Read moreInclusion: the WE of I.
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.
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