Margaret Mead once said, “The only person who likes change is a wet baby”, to which Hunter Lovins added “and the baby squalls all the way through the process.” So change is never easy, especially on the big issues of sustainability. In thinking about this, I have found Richard Beckhard and David Gleicher’s Formula for [...]
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Will Anyone Join Your Revolution?
Posted in CSR, Sustainability on May 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
An Unequal Marriage
Posted in CSR, Sustainability on March 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Why the Millennium Development Goals is an impossible dream unless local governance is wedded to better global stewardship ‘Eco cities’, urban ‘place-making’, and the ‘big society’ – what do these things have in common? The answer is they are all concepts of sustainable settlements (low carbon and more equal and prosperous living) that are most [...]
Occupy from the Inside
Posted in CSR on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
To some readers, the very notion of working within a corporation is tantamount to selling out their values as advocates for social or environmental justice. While this is a valid perspective, there is another view. Liz Maw articulated this view in her opening remarks for the 2011 Net Impact conference, when she said, “We are [...]
Why Your Company Should Occupy Wall Street
Posted in Corporate Responsibility, CSR, Responsible Business, Special Offers on December 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ten years ago, the very first issue of Ethical Corporation magazine showed a picture of anti-globalisation protesters in Genoa on its front cover. The caption read “Would you like this to happen outside your HQ?” The argument was that companies needed to be more responsible to avoid attack. Today, to point to social unrest as [...]
CSR for HR begins at home
Posted in CSR, Sustainability on November 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The new “Do Well Do Good Public Opinion Survey” on Sustainability has just been published. The survey was conducted through an online panel organized by Qualtrics Labs, Inc. between October 28 and November 2, 2011 with 1,001 respondents consisting of 500 women and 501 men on behalf of “Do Well Do Good”, LLC. The report [...]
Leadership for Sustainability: An Action Research Approach
Posted in Book Reviews, CSR, Responsible Business, Sustainability on November 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I rarely read a leadership text from cover to cover, but I found this to be a page turner, reading more like a novel, difficult to put down, and I wondered what each of the short stories would reveal as people have been moved to: “take on the challenges of living courageously in extraordinary times” [...]
Corporate Governance at the Crossroads
Posted in Cities, Corporate Responsibility, CSR, Responsible Business, Sustainability, Uncategorized on November 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Why the rise of China’s and India’s mid-sized cities is a conundrum for the green economy movement When archaeologists recently announced they had just discovered the ape-like remains of our primitive ancestors in South Africa it was hailed as homo sapiens’ “missing link” – the genetic bridge between modern humans and our older less evolved [...]
Local Content in Procurement: Creating Local Jobs and Competitive Domestic Industries in Supply Chains
Posted in Corporate Responsibility, CSR, Responsible Business, Sustainability, Uncategorized on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The launch party for Local Content in Procurement was held on Tuesday 27 September at the Bloomsbury Hotel, London. Local Content in Procurement is the first book of its kind. Recognising the substantial economic and social value brought to host countries and local communities through the procurement practices of large private and public companies, this [...]
Teaching Business Sustainability
Posted in Book Reviews, Corporate Responsibility, CSR, Responsible Business, Sustainability, Uncategorized on October 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Businesses today, as never before, are being challenged by the unrelenting and ever-increasing demands to address the concern of a wide range of critical stakeholders, including shareholders, customers, employees and communities. While businesses grow and prosper worldwide and though hundreds have been brought out of abject poverty and deprivation, poverty persists in many parts of [...]
Evolving Partnerships: A Guide to Working with Business for Greater Social Change
Posted in Book Reviews, Corporate Responsibility, CSR, Responsible Business, Sustainability, Uncategorized on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Partnerships can work, but can they work better? This accessible guidebook distils the author’s key learnings on the advanced strategic planning of cross-sectoral partnerships. By bringing together their respective competencies and resources for the greater good, governments, business, civil society and multilateral agencies have been seeking innovative ways to work together to respond to the [...]
