Bill Gates starts the ‘Innovate to Zero’ party
Thanks to Remo Guiffre from my favourite online shop REMO, for conneting me to Bill Gates' latest TED Talk. Bill believes that climate is even important than "vaccines and seeds"…
Thanks to Remo Guiffre from my favourite online shop REMO, for conneting me to Bill Gates' latest TED Talk. Bill believes that climate is even important than "vaccines and seeds"…
A great session at the Sydney Facilitators Network on Monday night and it reminded me that I haven't visited the WiserEarth site for a while. I encourage you to sign…
A good take on the abundance vs sufficiency dilemma from writer and personal life coach Bruce Elkin here. I agree with a lot of his sentiments and am working to…
I spent a chunk of last year trying to get my head around the research into sustainability, to help position the new "Sustainable Leadership Practices" (SLP) tool I was testing,…
A consultant colleague sent a group of us a provocative article from the Economist - titled "The Year of the CFO" which proclaimed that EQ, Talent Management and Corporate Social…
A great interview by Coert Visser with David Maister. The choice is starkly laid out for small businesses, especially Maister's niche of professional services firms. Paraphrasing his words - the…
I'm currently participating in a research project in conjunction with MGSM's fledgling Institute for Sustainable Leadership and grappling with the multiple meanings of the word "sustainable" in the organisational context.…
I know a colleague who is undergoing a mid life career change. We are both familiar with the phrase “do what you love and the money will follow”. We discussed silent issue that this statement doesn’t address – the fact / fear that between the doing and flowing, there can be a gap of many months or even years. For a solo person, who don’t have a working partner or financially supportive family, or existing capital, this can make a career change dangerous if the income dries up in the transition.
In a similar vein I’ve recently had conversations with Uni colleagues about choosing research topics based initially on “market attractiveness” and less on passion, but then changing topics because the passion is what sees us through the long grind of research projects and we have to trust that at the end there is some interest in our expertise.
Along with passion, I keep noticing the power of a supportive environment. (more…)
I loved the title of this AMCHAM Women in Management seminar and I enjoyed the content and the format. The speakers gave great insights into what organisations are doing to contribute to sustainability, they also gave us their personal stories and the format gave us time to engage with our table groups rather than just passive listening. Three big ticks from me.
On the “people” front, Siobhan Toohill told us about a number of initiatives to engage Stockland employees in sustainability, including introducing a balanced scorecard for all employees. What a way to embed the corporate balanced scorecard – with a 10% KPI requires each employee to identify what they are doing to contribute to sustainability.
The flow-on benefit for Stockland is that employee engagement scores are way up, confirming that sustainability is good for business.
In a recent interview with business philosopher and author Paul Hawken in BOSS magazine, there's a "phrase bite" I loved about greenwash - "Hypocrisy is one place to start... It's…
I’ve been reading an INSEAD Knowledge Newsletter article about some recent marketing research, investigating people’s predictions compared to their behaviours and it seems to be pointing in the following direction…
Talk about a small world. Walking through Luna Park recently I ran into an 'old' SEALCORP / ASSIRT colleague Michael Walsh and was pleased to hear that his business Lifecraft…