by Graeme Codrington | Jun 21, 2011 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
UK Indie Rock band, The Kaiser Chiefs, have taken a step up in the social business world with their latest album, The Future is Medieval. They’ve made twenty tracks available to their fans. You listen to the tracks and select ten of them, and order them, for...
by Graeme Codrington | Jun 17, 2011 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
In a recent Harvard Business Review blog, Umair Haque (author of The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business – buy it at Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com or Kalahari.net) wrote a provocative piece. I agree with his underlying premise: the...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Jun 13, 2011 | Archive, Change, Future Trends, Leadership
Michael Porter, the Harvard Business School strategy guru says that strategies of the future will be led by companies that serve communities and understand the deep underlying needs of the communities that buy their products. Coined Creating Shared Value (CSV) by...
by Graeme Codrington | Jun 9, 2011 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
In his daily blog entry today, Seth Godin provides an amazingly insightful analysis of what he calls the “free-gap”. Many of us who produce intellectual capital for a living (authors, speakers, consultants, but also musicians, artists and the like) battle...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Jun 6, 2011 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
The WWF in collaboration with Ecofys has created a brilliant report presenting a provocative scenario, set in 2050, of a world run entirely on renewable energy resulting in incredible global cost savings and improved standards of living. By 2050, we could get all the...
by Graeme Codrington | May 26, 2011 | Archive, Change, Leadership
In tough times, people matter. Ensuring your staff are passionate and focused is a critical leadership task right now. One of the most effective techniques for motivating your younger staff in particular is to provide ongoing development for them, especially providing...
