Personal Ethics in the Corporate World
How do you confront the moral tensions inherent in corporate life and come out with your ethics intact? Elizabeth Doty writes for S+B (Strategy and Business), and has written an excellent articles on the topic, followed up by an online forum discussion and an extended...
Talent management – no one is doing it well
The Business Performance Management (BPM) Forum’s 2007 Performance and Talent Management Trend Survey was recently released. It polled more than 725 (primarily North American) HR and performance professionals, executives and talent management experts. The basic...
Intuitive Leadership: Embracing a Paradigm of Narrative, Metaphor, and Chaos
I met Tim Keel in Uganda last year, where he and I attended a conference. It was about reconciliation, learning leadership lessons from Africa and about postmodern communities of faith. I spent some time with Tim, and really enjoyed his approach to life. At that...
50 Ways to Green Your Business
Fast Company is a brilliant magazine. Their website is equally superb. They recently had a massive feature article on ways to make your business more environmentally friendly. From: Issue 120 | November 2007 | Page 90 | By: Mark Borden, Jeff Chu, Charles Fishman,...
Face the facts… about ageing workforces
One of the issues we are tracking closely at TomorrowToday is the ageing Boomer generation, and the impact they are likely to have on the workplace, on retirement (we prefer to call it retyrement) and society as a whole. Here is a great piece I saw recently in an...
Boomers Turning 60 – coming into their branding prime
Boomers are variously defined as those people born from the mid 1940s to the mid 1960s around the world. Most researchers use the end of the Second World War as a reference point, which means that as of 2006, this group of people has started to turn 60. They are not...
Graeme & Hannah’s Rules featured on SusBiz podcast
If you're interested in that sort of thing, then I was recently interviewed in the UK by Anthony Day - a long time sustainable business advocate. You can hear the podcast of three interviews he did on the day by going to his website. It's also a nice summary of my...
Generation Y – the Millennials are coming
A survey of more than 2,500 employers and managers by recruitment website CareerBuilder.com has identified huge generational differences between Generation Y and their managers. This isn't anything new to readers of this blog site, but ongoing research is now...
Generation Y – the Millennials are coming
A survey of more than 2,500 employers and managers by recruitment website CareerBuilder.com has identified huge generational differences between Generation Y and their managers. This isn't anything new to readers of this blog site, but ongoing research is now...
The world’s worst products
The world's worst products, as voted for by Consumers International. Coca-Cola – for continuing the international marketing of its bottled water, Dasani, despite admitting it comes from the same sources as local tap water. Kellogg’s – for the...
The world’s worst products
The world's worst products, as voted for by Consumers International. Coca-Cola – for continuing the international marketing of its bottled water, Dasani, despite admitting it comes from the same sources as local tap water. Kellogg’s – for the...
The Lion and the Dragon
This past week, ICBC, the world's most valuable bank (valued at $319 bn) took a 20% stake in Standard Bank, Africa's largest bank by assets. The deal is worth $ 5.5bn. This is the largest foreign investment by a Chinese bank anywhere in the world. And it is the the...
The Lion and the Dragon
This past week, ICBC, the world's most valuable bank (valued at $319 bn) took a 20% stake in Standard Bank, Africa's largest bank by assets. The deal is worth $ 5.5bn. This is the largest foreign investment by a Chinese bank anywhere in the world. And it is the the...
The Earth has Soul
I was sent this recently. It was written by an engineer from Venmyn, a big South African mining consulting company. Are Geologists Goofy Enough? By Fiona Harper At Venmyn, when our esteemed, eccentric colleagues come up with mad-cap mining methods or weird deposits,...
The Earth has Soul
I was sent this recently. It was written by an engineer from Venmyn, a big South African mining consulting company. Are Geologists Goofy Enough? By Fiona Harper At Venmyn, when our esteemed, eccentric colleagues come up with mad-cap mining methods or weird deposits,...
Planet in Peril on CNN
I am sitting watching a documentary series on CNN, by Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Cupta, called "Planet in Peril". See the related website here. It starts as a list of climate change issues, from melting ice caps to rising sea levels, disappearing lakes to heating...
Planet in Peril on CNN
I am sitting watching a documentary series on CNN, by Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Cupta, called "Planet in Peril". See the related website here. It starts as a list of climate change issues, from melting ice caps to rising sea levels, disappearing lakes to heating...
Why Ethical Consumption is Taking Off
Dr Graeme Codrington's latest presentation is called "Hannah's Rules" which alerts companies to an essential emerging trend: the ethical consumer. In this article, he explains WHY ethical consumption is such a growing trend. Why Ethical Consumption is Taking Off By Dr...
Who’s Looking After Them?
Karin Wellman, co-founder and director of TomorrowTraining, asks, "Who is training your trainers?" Trainers and those in charge of the development of other staff members are often neglected as recipients of training and development themselves. Karin highlights this as...
Who's Looking After Them?
Karin Wellman, co-founder and director of TomorrowTraining, asks, "Who is training your trainers?" Trainers and those in charge of the development of other staff members are often neglected as recipients of training and development themselves. Karin highlights this as...