How a perspective change can be crucial for progress

Sometimes a perspective change what it takes to make upward progress – in business, and in climbing, as I found after falling off a rock face on Sunday.

Sarah David: intentional leadership, positive habits, transformation and business books plus Dulma Clark

Anti-fragile Sarah David talks about intentional leadership, positive habits, supporting transformation and the business books she rates most highly; Dulma Clark runs Soul of Africa, which makes and sells “shoes that change lives.”

Interviews: Kisha Bradley, Bright Box and #girlswithdrills and Darren Chouings

Interviews with Kisha Bradley, engineer, STEAM-inist, founder of Bright Box Makerspace and #girlswithdrills collaborator; and Darren Chouings, voluntary chair of the Sheffield Social Enterprise Network.

Interview: Lynne Brooke, Social Stock Exchange and ethical investing

New interview: impact investing, NEX Exchange and the Social Stock Exchange; and “rescuing capitalism as a force for good.” Lynne Brooke explains.

Marketing: don’t be like the KLF; do measure the right metrics

Remember the KLF? Rock stars, artists, provocateurs: 23 years ago they burned a million quid in a field. That really upset quite a lot of folk. But it’s what lots of business owners and social entrepreneurs are doing all the time. Last autumn I was dismayed but not surprised to read research showing that almost […]

Accountant with heart and soul PLUS Dom the Pack Leader – new radio show interviews

Interview with dog trainer and pet business coach, Dom Hodgson, and (in the words of a listener) an accountant with heart and soul, Steve Knowles.

Interview with Webmart’s Marxist Capitalist CEO Simon Biltcliffe

Interview with Simon Biltcliffe, CEO and founder of Webmart and “Marxist-Capitalist” on using business to create and share value. Plus photographer Vincent Tremeau in this latest radio show podcast.

New radio show: Jane Weston, Mo Ali, Nick Temple

Radio show covering workforce development, international aid, procurement, social enterprise trends, bidding for contacts and more – with guests Jane Weston, Mo Ali (Aid Works) and Nick Temple (SEUK).

Interview: bean-to-bar Bullion Chocolate founder Max

Interview with Max Scotford of award-winning bean-to-bar chocolate business, Bullion Chocolate and Rob King, business start-up advisor at Sheffield Hallam University.

Women hit their crowdfunding targets more than men – across sectors and the world

Yesterday The Crowdfunding Center and PwC published the new joint report, Women Unbound: Unleashing female entrepreneurial potential, which explores the experience of women in achieving finance raising success through seed crowdfunding compared with more traditional finance raising routes. I was one of the two lead authors of the report.