A small archive of my writing about growing businesses with soul, conviction, integrity and real human personality. Hopefully some of it might be helpful or even inspiring.
I believe in responsible companies. I believe in profits with principles.
I believe that being profitable gives you the freedom to make good decisions.
I believe that if a company can make a profit doing the right things the right way, it has the strength to say no to things that may compromise its hard-won integrity, and the capacity to say yes to things that could change their part of the world for the better.
I doesn’t matter if you do or do not believe in an interventionist God, we have been given ever-more alarming signs for decades, and we do know the options to rescue ourselves, but we aren’t listening.
It takes real courage to make commercial decisions that challenge the status quo, contrary to the way your industry normally goes about its business, because it is a very real risk. Doing the right thing, maintaining your integrity, even though it is so very hard is truly brave, and we should reward that courage with our custom.
“The noise has to connect together to generate a result. Noise can be very exciting, but it is only really useful if it is part of a journey with impact.”
This is a piece about sending the right thing, to the right person at the right time. This is about thinking inside the box.
For a business with purpose at its heart to succeed and grow, it needs more than one heartbeat.
B2B sounds like a faceless interaction between faceless corporations, but that’s not what B2B means at all to me.
Former Ad agency CEO Bob Hoffman thinks all deluded. No one gives a fox’s poo about brand stories; digital ads are a con and we’re obsessed with customers who have neither interest in, nor money for our products.
No one likes to be sold to. No one likes to marketed to either. We are bombarded at every click and every page by relentless and unwanted persuasion, which has presented most B2B sales and marketing professionals with a massive problem.
Name your favourite business or business leader and I’ll have a hundred quid on the fact that they’re neither clichéd, nor boring. They’re probably all rebellious renegades, so isn’t it high time you embraced your inner punk?
If you want your organisation or business to grow and to flourish there are three simple rules that you must know.