Does Amazon have culture spot on?

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Open Sans Light||||” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” text_line_height=”1.4em”] If all you care about is hitting the numbers, it can be argued that it does. Values is the word that makes many a driven, hard-nosed exec lean back with skepticism. When you think about Amazon, you think ‘bad culture’ because […]
The Trump-Brexit effect, at your organisation now

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Open Sans Light||||” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] If there’s one thing 2016 has shown us, it’s the stark divides we’ve allowed to creep into our once united nations. Rich and poor, urban and rural, old and young, black and white, left and right, have and have nots, them and […]
Collaborative problem-solving: working with, not for, a client
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Open Sans Light||||” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] It’s a funny thing how communications agencies typically work. The belief permeates that we (i.e. the agency) always needs to be one step ahead of the client. Have the answers. Know how to solve a problem. But I disagree. Impressing the client […]
‘Values’ means actions, not words

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Open Sans Light||||” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Need further persuasion that values are big business? Today being official World Values Day should do the trick. The UK Values Alliance has earmarked October 20th as a chance for the “many values driven organisations all over the world” to “speak up […]
The importance of work with purpose for Gen Y
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Open Sans Light||||” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] If you don’t subscribe to HR Mag, you would have missed our Chief Whip Rosie Warin play a starring role in February’s issues in an article titled ‘Gen Y’ employees and the function of HR in Purpose.’ Rosie was in good company […]
New Study: Purpose Driven Leader – Purpose Driven Career
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Open Sans Light||||” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] What if 50 million senior executives’ frustrations and aspirations could ignite social change AND profitable business? What if the leadership skills to affect social change were also THE key to developing purpose driven careers? In this new paper, Anita Hoffmann, Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University […]
A Blueprint for Better Business appoints Kin&Co as Communications Agency
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Open Sans Light||||” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] A Blueprint for Better Business, a movement set up to support and challenge business to be a force for good, has appointed communications and culture agency, Kin&Co, to handle integrated communications across 2016. A Blueprint for Better Business, formed in 2012, encourages […]
We’re looking for an intern!
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Open Sans Light||||” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Kin&Co is a communications and culture consultancy that empowers people to create a happier, healthier world. We harness the power of purpose, values and sustainability to make organisations more successful, inside and out. Our associate model includes a wide network of people […]
Our picks for International Women’s Day 2016

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Open Sans Light||||” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] To mark International Women’s Day 2016, we had a quick whip round the team to share the stories of inspiring women who’ve impacted our work. Here’s what some of us had to say… Rosie Warin: My inspiring woman is Georgie Howlett. I […]
The evidence behind values and purpose
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Open Sans Light||||” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] “Ultimately, the companies that perform exceptionally well clearly demonstrate their mission, culture, and values”. –Forbes Magazine, “The Best Places to Work in 2016” (December, 2015) If you’ve been paying attention to the business media over the last couple of years, you’ll know by […]