| Authentic Transformation for business - more>> |
 Authentic businesses flourish at a size and in markets where conventional rivals flounder. Why is this? What enables these businesses to make a profit where others cannot; to grow where others shrink, to fly were others fall? And how might this apply to other businesses or organisations? Having worked with authentic businesses for three years and written about them in his new book – Authentic Business, how to create and run your perfect business, Neil Crofts thinks he knows the answers.
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| A Sense of Purpose - more>> |
The Glue That Binds Successful Organisations
There are, I believe, three main drivers of long term business success: Creativity, Relationships and Sustainability. The key to ensuring these drivers generate maximum benefit for the organisation is to bind them together so that they can work in harmony. This is most effectively done when there is a powerful sense of purpose which is at the heart of the business*. |
| What is the real work of management? - more>> |
| Some of us are striving to better understand ourselves and the world we live in. What we find often doesn’t sit very well with this commercial world: by working within this system, are we sustaining something we don’t much care for? David Brook, a previous contributor, and Alexis Read explore how being authentic relates to the world of management. |
| Soul Business - more>> |
What does the Soul of an organisation look like? Is it just the sum of the individual souls that make it up? Or does it have a life, a heart of its own? If so, in what condition is the heart of many of our larger businesses and institutions? Could it be that Marks and Spencers faced its recent turbulence because, at some level, it has lost sight of its Soul? In my own experience, I can think of an example that may point towards the existence of such a ‘Soul’ in business.
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| Finding Work that makes you Happy - more>> |
If you know you hate your job, then you'll know that it's time to leave. But if you have a vague feeling that things are just not as good as they could be, and aren’t quite sure what to do about it … read on!
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| Finding your way - more>> |
Neil explores some of the challenges facing those embarking on the path of authenticity in business and offers some of his solutions as well as identifying some criteria to help understand what constitutes an authentic business. |
| Liberating the leaders – applying Complexity Science to Sustainable Development - more>> |
Mike Jones of Open Minds looks at the ways on which business can use complexity science to guide it on a path to sustainability.
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| Meeting needs - more>> |
Meeting design is not something, which seems to get a great deal of recognition but it is something Neil Crofts came to understand during his time at Razorfish. "We had so many meeting and had such a lot to achieve in them that designing the meetings using specific activities and break out sessions to achieve particular outcomes and build towards a final objective became crucial. Since then I have learned far more about meeting design and we now offer it as part of the Authentic Guides service. |
| Responsible Internal Practices as a Starting-Point for CSR - more>> |
Alex takes a very practical look at the implementation of CSR policies and shows just how easy and inspiring it can be for companies large and small. He also uses a number of case studies to illustrate the range of benefits that ethical companies enjoy including super high staff and customer loyalty and retention and great motivation.
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| Inspiration at the Transplant Games - more>> |
Regular readers of Authentic Business will know that one of the strong underlying themes is to strive to be true to oneself, to gain personal authenticity. No doubt many of you are well on the way, but others will be stuck in inertia, self-doubt, laziness, or any one of the many demons that can hold us back from truly expressing ourselves. Well, if you recognise yourself as one of the stuck ones, you may find inspiration in the following true tale.
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