Our Learning and Leadership Approach

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We are in the business of creating prosperity. Our learning and leadership approach enables us to focus on processes that lead to developing innovations, that people can pull in their business organisation, to help them make progress, apply virtue ethics in business, make money, become rich, create employment and contribute to society's economic development  and to our collective well being. We believe in the basic principles of the market economy, with a long term application of the principle of reciprocity and civil virtues, that steer the market economy into a positive economy and reorient capitalism towards tackling long-term challenges. We support family businesses, and organisations, including Cooperatives -  we transform them to maximise efficiency, create growth, wealth and high-quality jobs, and face up to the challenges - whether ecological, technological, social - ahead of us.

 

Combining entrepreneurship and cooperation, we support those of us (in family businesses and organisations, including Cooperatives), concerned about ethics in business, and those of us concerned about the degradation of natural care in our civil society. We believe in cooperation and reciprocity. We believe that family businesses and organisations, including Cooperatives are natural vehicles for reciprocity, where people use their money to help each other rather than solely for profit.  We understand that taking care of each other is central to society's well being.  

 

Our leadership approach to developing sustainable businesses, rests on our belief that people inherently and instinctively want to be respected for their work and effort and individuality. Business is all about people. There is no event in your day that cannot be used for people development.  Aiming to take SMEs to their next level of scale and profitability, we build friendly partnerships with capable and trustworthy management teams, working closely with them to develop successful employees. We strive to improve the business performance of our clients through talent leadership that drives the bottom line. We unlock the potential of building management development programmes by using assessment and calibration as foundational tools for key performance indicators.

 

We are inspired by the following Leadership Quotes : 

 

"The only unique asset that a business has for gaining a sustained competitive advantage over rivals is its worforce - the skills and dedication of its employees.  There is no other sustainable advantage in the modern, high-tech, global economy. " (Robert Reich - author of the book The Common Good)

 

"Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them." (Winston Churchill)

 

"Leadership shows judgement, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence." (Walt Disney)

 

“An organisation’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” (Jack Welch)

 

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." (Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh)

 

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

 

"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."  (General H. Norman Schwarzkopf)

 

“True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.”  (Robert Townsend)

 

"The leadership instinct you were born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it."  (Elaine Agather - chairwoman of the Dallas Region for JPMorgan Chase Bank).

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"If you think you' re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito" (Anita Roddick - founder of The Body Shop)

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We seek to follow Adam Smith's  "theory of moral sentiments" which articulated civic and economic morality,  and motivating theories  of contemporary economists such as Professor Stefano Zamigni and Professor Johan J. Graafland - taking into consideration, factors that matter to most of us: trust, reciprocity, belonging, relationships, the well being of individuals and the public good, redistribution of wealth, justice, ethics, and social capital.  We make these factors central to how business organisations should and can operate. We believe in contributive justice. Contributive justice, as opposed to distributive justice, is the responsibility each of us has to contribute to civil society, and to our collective well being.

 

We do try to match a person's obligations with his or her capabilities and role in society. We believe that we need practical and insightful managers and business leaders to guide our planetary challenges, and who are ready to pay attention to the needs of all of its inhabitants. We are happy that there have been extraordinary strides in human well-being over the past 6 to 7 decades, whilst the human population has grown by almost 40 to 45%.  We are happy that global population stands today at around 7.5 billion and is expected to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, but we are saddened to learn that many millions of people still lead lives of extreme deprivation. Worldwide, around 6 million children under the age of 5 still die, and more than half of those deaths are due to easy-to-treat conditions like diarrhoea and malaria. Over 70 million young men and women are unable to find work. Deprivations such as these have been perpetuated by growing insecurities and inequalities. The 2008 financial meltdown sent shock waves through the world economy, stealing many millions of people of their jobs, homes, savings and security. Meanwhile, human activity is putting unprecedented stress on our planetary home and adding the deepening degradation of Earth's support systems. Despite these challenges, one thing is clear - with the right economic mindset, we can all play a defining role to tackle humanity's interwoven challenges, and create a new economic story. We need a narrative picture of our shared economic future that is fit for achieving the highest life-giving, sustainable-growth driven by respectful businesses that have a purpose far more inspiring than merely maximising shareholder value; and a growing number of enterprises are finding out that by engaging our consultancy services, they give themselves one. 

 

Such a values-driven mission is what we encourage all our clients to embrace. The fundamental question is whether we can restore the common good, and rebuild trust in the system. The answer is yes we can. We can create a type of business that is socially and environmentally regenerative by design, and do something good for the public good. 

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​Think ahead. Contact us to set up a meeting.  Let your operating team know a little more about us.

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Our experience in the consultancy service, instilled strong  communication skills and a comfort with diversity. We were able to reflect on lessons learned through various assignments working for a number of  clients in different industries, whilst making a contribution to developing their businesses. Due to confidentiality and non-disclosure restrictions, we are not at liberty to reveal the identity of our clients, but the  following messages represent experiences shared by longtime clients: