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About Charles
Past:
MA in Maths from Oxford University
Chartered Accountant with what is now Deloittes
Finance and Systems Director in the US
12 years in Strategy Development with Mars Europe
Present:
Course Leader with the Institute of Directors
Certified Director
Non Executive Director and Charity Trustee
Accredited to deliver MBTI, Strengthscope and FIRO-B
In future, I could help you:
Take your next generation of leaders to the next level of performance
Get clear about your strategic choices
Articulate a powerful corporate culture
Bring dry topics - like financial reports - to life
Find the hidden levers of business and career success
My approach to resilience
Here are some of the ideas I've absorbed after many years in business. Some people might still find them a bit radical, but they're important and I hope they're becoming mainstream. If you're open to them, we'll get along just fine!

Profit
The purpose of business is not to focus on profit above all else. And it's certainly not to profit by causing problems elsewhere.

The purpose of business is to find profitable solutions to the world's problems.

Profit is a just reward, not the goal.
Value
Enlightened businesses seek to create value for all stakeholders, not just the providers of capital.

By finding mutual benefits with suppliers, employees, customers and others, we can build fruitful long-term relationships.
Strategy
Setting targets is not a strategy. Willpower is not a strategy. Exhorting people to try harder is not a strategy.

A strategy is a hypothesis about how to solve a problem.

In organisations this means co-ordinating effort, prioritising, sacrificing. This has to be thought through and articulated at a senior level.
Purpose
Visions and missions are fine. Sometimes they fire people up, sometimes they don't.

But purpose is powerful. By finding and pursuing a just cause - the beneficial impact we want to have on our customers or the wider world - we can make better choices and attract stakeholders to get behind something genuinely motivating.
Want to learn more?
If you'd like to train your new and future leaders, or if you're interested in any of my other services, please contact me using this form
45 Whitehall Park Road,
London W4 3NB, UK
charles@charleskingsmill.com
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My approach to resilience

Here are some of the ideas I've absorbed after many years in business. Some people might still find them a bit radical, but they're important and I hope they're becoming mainstream. If you're open to them, we'll get along just fine!

Profit

Value

Strategy

Purpose

Want to learn more?

If you'd like to train your new and future leaders, or if you're interested in any of my other services, please contact me using this form