The New P & L - Principles and Leadership in Business

Design Thinking and Systems Thinking have the potential to dramatically transform a business – bringing order to innovation, opening up creativity, challenging funnel thinking and dramatically reducing the timeline from product ideation to product delivery. This week, The New P&L – Principles & Leadership in Business podcast series spoke to respected Design Thinking consultant and advocate...

The future of work looks very different to how we imagined it might be just 12 months ago. All of us - from business leaders, SME employers, employees to those in the contracting and freelance sectors are going to have to creatively reimagine what that future now looks like for work and employment. There are, clearly, many challenges ahead of us, but with change and challenge also comes tremendous...

The ability to be ‘agile’ is key to a more successful future for businesses as we move slowly out of the pandemic in the next few months and years. Strong, self-aware and empathetic leadership is needed in order to recognise where the opportunities for a business are and how that business can quickly and firmly get itself in best position operationally and commercially to take advantage of these o...

Neuromarketing is a fascinating and fast-developing industry. Tapping into consumers’ subconscious minds offers huge potential for brands as they continually strive to get closer to their customers, understand what drives them and create and sell products that are aligned with their motivations, interests and desires.  However, there are challenges around data consent and privacy and the resp...

We all have dreams within us. Whether personal or professional, or both. But dreams don’t materialise by themselves. The dream might be the ambition, but it’s the hard work, focus, inner strength and determination and single-minded drive – over time and often through periods of tremendous adversity - that helps us to realise the dream and ultimately, fulfil the ambition This week, The New P&L...

The aim of social entrepreneurship and innovation is to try and address the needs of society in more efficient, effective and intelligent ways – through business becoming a force for good: innovating and designing for society as well as for profit to create social and commercial value. The global challenges we collectively face, by virtue of their scale, will not discriminate between society and b...

Better People make better business people and more principled business leaders – it’s that simple. The more in tune we are with ourselves; the more we are able to demonstrate self-awareness, empathy, passion, focus and drive, the more successful we will be in all our relationships – personal and professional and the more we will be able to lead with conviction, courage and compassion. This week, T...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are both ambitious and necessary, and the global business community has both the power and the responsibility to drive cohesive commitment and action on these goals. This week, The New P&L speaks to Founder and CEO of VATI of Sweden, Eva Vati.  As one of the first consultancies in the world to offer businesses a certified methodology for in...

The impact of AI on all aspects of our life is far-reaching. AI has incredible potential, and when and designed and developed with ethical principles underpinning it, AI can have a transformational effect on communities and businesses in many ways. But AI is not without bias – it can often carry with it the subjective assumptions and judgements of those developing it or built on data that reinforc...

Leadership in times of adversity and the ability to excel in a crisis, such as the one we face globally as a result of the pandemic, requires a specific set of characteristics. These attributes don’t just appear in leaders; they are honed over time based on accumulated experience and refined through consistent preparation, training and application. This week, in an extensive discussion with an ins...

Successful commercial negotiations are clearly one of the key drivers for business growth - you sell more products for the right price and you set your business on a firm foundation for the future. However, these negotiations so often seem to be a zero sum game, with one or both parties feeling aggrieved at the final outcome, which clearly doesn't set the right tone for a positive ongoing business...

As we all work out way slowly and hopefully out of the worst of the pandemic and consider the economic and business challenges that lie in front of us, courageous and empathetic leadership at helm of both business and society is going to be more critical than ever.  This week the New P&L - Principles & Leadership in Business speaks to executive leadership coach, business strategist an...

“Some dream and some do”. Most of us have passions in our personal and professional lives – ideas about the way the world should be or how businesses should behave.  But for a select few, that passion transforms into action – they turn their Passion into their professional Purpose, and it drives their focus, their motivation and their inspiration.   The New P&L® ‘Passion into Purpose...

Guy Kawasaki is a legend in the world of technology. As Chief Evangelist for Apple in the 1980s, he played important key roles in the commercial success of the Apple Mac and building the company’s now legendary brand loyalty.  The international stage then beckoned, and Guy established himself as a hugely successful author on innovation, marketing and business and a sort-after keynote speaker....

Social entrepreneurship is on the rise, driven by those whose passion and purpose it is to affect real change in society.  The evolution of social entrepreneurship over recent years has also demonstrated that ‘not-for-profit’ doesn’t and shouldn’t mean ‘no profit’; as profitability is vital for the ongoing funding of the purpose that sits at the heart of these important organisations. This we...

As adults, and especially as business people, we often have a tendency to over-complicate our lives: business is notorious for this with its relentless commitment to an ever growing array of acronyms, methodologies and processes – and most of us are guilty of embracing them, often in a vain attempt to ‘big ourselves up’. However, this pandemic is forcing many of us – some unfortunately through nec...

Data dictates nearly every aspect of our lives, and the ethical issues and opportunities around the collection, curation and management of data are a reoccurring topic of discussion with many guests on The New P&L - Principles & Leadership in Business podcast series. In May, The New P&L hosted an exclusive virtual Roundtable discussion – sponsored by UK-based ethical data champions, My...

Our core values, principles and belief systems based on our upbringing and life experiences determine our outlook on life - our perceptions, ability, performance and ultimately, our success - both personally and professionally.  This week, The New P&L - Principles & Leadership podcast series speaks to one of the world's foremost authorities on human behaviour and personal development,...

Currently, only around 1% of global corporate spend goes to businesses that are majority-owned by women - it's an enormous disparity in the corporate supply chain. WEConnect International aims to break down these barriers and is focused on working with women-owned businesses and corporations across the world to connect both parties in the procurement process.  This week, The New P&L - Pri...

A constant commitment to innovation and challenging the status quo is a key to a business's continued growth and success. However, many innovation models are misunderstood, misused or no longer fit for purpose, leaving product development without a determined focus and businesses drifting as a result. The acute impact of the current pandemic on all economies will further expose some leaders and bu...

The commitment to developing global standards for the ethical development and implementation of technological innovation is critical to building trust - not just in the technology companies themselves, but also business more generally and the political institutions that serve us as citizens. This week The New P&L - Principles & Leadership in Business Podcast Series speaks to Hilary Sutclif...

PART TWO (of two episodes): Philippe’s stellar 30-year career in the technology and venture capital industries includes tenures as Director of Apple’s Worldwide Internet Commerce Group, where he launched Apple’s online store; as well as Head of global media giant, Matra Hachette Multimedia’s electronic publishing division.  In his time as a venture capitalist, Philippe has served on the board of d...

PART ONE (of two episodes): Philippe’s stellar 30-year career in the technology and venture capital industries includes tenures as Director of Apple’s Worldwide Internet Commerce Group, where he launched Apple’s online store; as well as Head of global media giant, Matra Hachette Multimedia’s electronic publishing division.  In his time as a venture capitalist, Philippe has served on the board...

Social impact enterprise, Pass It On Clothing & Co, brings both quality clothing and the 'Dignity of Choice' to the homeless communities of Sydney, Australia. This week The New P&L - Principles & Leadership in Business speak to Pass It On Clothing & Co's founder, Chris Vagg, about the inspiration that led to the establishing of the enterprise; why it is critical we all play our par...

The inspirational Ally Owen launched the Brixton Finishing School in 2017 with an aim to disrupt the way the Creative, Advertising and Tech Industries recruit talent, providing an ‘end to end' solution to meet the industry’s diversity challenges.  The Brixton Finishing School offers 18-25 year olds from a diverse range of social, cultural and other groups (Multi-Cultural, Working Class, Neuro...