How to build systems that match your ethics, with Jacki Hayes

About this episode

Peta O'Brien-Day interviews Jacki Hayes about building ethical systems for creative service businesses.

Today on the Soap Box, I’m talking to Jacki Hayes, a systems geek for creative service businesses and someone who’s quietly building a very different kind of company. Jacki helps creative service providers stop duct-taping their systems together and build businesses that actually work, with more ease, clarity and flexibility. In our conversation, Jacki makes a simple, slightly spicy point, the kind I like. Running a business is political, not party political, but human political. The way we p...

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Host: Peta O'Brien-Day

Guest: Jacki Hayes

Topics covered

• business systems
• creative services
• ethics in business
• system building
• politics in business

Keywords

• business systems
• creative services
• ethics
• system building
• politics in business

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