Category: Brand-led Business Strategy

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Lessons Learnt from a Labour of Love

This is me holding the very first copy of my first book. What the picture can’t communicate is the overwhelming sense of relief I was feeling, the rush of euphoria that had just hit me, and the complete and utter joy in my heart. On September the 20th…
Coffee - a dinner party shame in brand-led strategy
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Funny Business: How humour fuels business growth

We know that laughter is good for us. But is it also good for business?Babies laugh on average 400 times a day. Once you get to over 35 this has dropped to 15 a day – and, a recent US Gallup poll showed, we laugh less on a…
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The true meaning of business success

“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?” Clarence Odbody, Angel Second Class Would anyone miss your business if it didn’t exist? It’s a regular question consultants ask their clients in workshops. The answer…
Coffee - a dinner party shame in brand-led strategy
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Why Leaders need Soft Skills

Our guest blog this month is by Neil Mullarkey. An associate of Caffeine, we work together to help leaders using improvisational theatre to enhance people’s skills in communication, leadership and innovation. Are there too many leadership books? Too many big ideas? What does it actually mean to be,…
Coffee - a dinner party shame in brand-led strategy
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The future of business growth

I’ve seen the future… and it’s beautiful. Lisbon is also beautiful. This gloriously creative and friendly city hosted The House of Beautiful Business alongside Web Summit, the world’s largest tech conference dubbed ‘Davos for Geeks’ by Bloomberg. The House of Beautiful Business is a pop-up community for meaningful…
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What’s the purpose of housing?

I recently attended the UK’s biggest conference on housing. Government, local governments, housing associations, developers, construction companies, outsourcing consultancies, mortgagers, homeless charities – they were all there. The Grenfell Tower disaster provided a tragic backdrop to the conference and one which focused everyone’s attention on the state of…
Coffee - a dinner party shame in brand-led strategy
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You can’t lead a country like a business

We are at the beginning of a great experiment in democracy. For the first time, the ‘Leader of The Free World’ is a man who has no experience of any form of government or mainstream politics.  Donald Trump has been elected, in part, precisely because he is not…
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Do the right thing, right away

Decisions are quicker and better when you follow your purpose. Within hours of President Trump’s Executive Order banning all visitors to the USA from seven mainly Muslim nations as well as all refugees from anywhere, AirBnB offered to house immigrants in its properties. Explaining its decision, it cited…

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