Leadership

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If Not Profit, Then What?

Richard Shrapnel's 'If Not Profit, Then What?'.

A focus on profit can often lead to short-term gains and material long-term losses in market value. Business leaders around the world have led their businesses to maximise shareholder returns to only discover that regulators and communities have moved against…

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The Best Investment You’ll Ever Make

Richard Shrapnel's 'The Best Investment You’ll Ever Make'.

As a business leader, your energies are continually focused on your business and seeking to direct, align, motivate and inspire all the people participating within it. Your constant attention is on everyone else and there is typically little ‘me’ time…

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Name The Mavericks In Your Business

Richard Shrapnel's 'Name The Mavericks In Your Business'.

Most successful businesses are created through the unorthodox. Their founders discover an unmet need and a way to fulfil it that delivers more value than anyone else can. Their business is seeded, grows, becomes hugely successful, and then begins to…

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In Our Business Leaders, We Trust?

Richard Shrapnel's 'In Our Business Leaders, We Trust?'.

Trust has always been important in business. But through the increasing prevalence of the profit-first motive, and the ways in which the internet and social media highlights events, it has become even more compelling. In what do we trust our…

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How Do You Energise Your Business?

Richard Shrapnel's 'How Do You Energise Your Business?'

Everyone has experienced the struggles of falling out of bed early in the morning and getting themselves off to work. Many of us have built habits to overcome these hurdles and get ourselves up and going. But what about your…

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