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GLOBE 2012: Lessons in Culture Management from Interface Virgin Unite

Two types of memories stand out from GLOBE 2012, a renowned annual Vancouver event: deeper connections forged with old friends and new connections established with others who we can now call  new  friends. 

Those connections may have occurred while relaxing on a couch between sessions, sharing a bite o...

Creating Shared Value through Cultural Collaborations

Successful partnerships across sectors connect people across sectors. At JPMorgan Chase, we are lucky to have many strong cross sector partnerships that are vibrant and ongoing. The key to these successes is empowering people to be creative in caring for and nurturing our community involvement. In o...

A Business Book For Sustainability Leaders

In  Reality-Based Leadership , Cy Wakeman reveals how to be the kind of leader who changes the way people think about and perceive their circumstances-one who deals with the facts, clarifying roles, giving clear and direct feedback, and insisting that everyone do the same, without drama or defensivene...

Why True Leaders Make Us Uncomfortable

You know the feeling. The elevator doors are closing behind you – and you are suddenly alone with someone you have long wanted to meet and influence. How to connect? I have often been encouraged to develop a 20-second elevator pitch, but have always refused. My counter-argument is that if busy peopl...

The Benefit Corporation: Changing the Fabric of Society

Elisa Miller-Out is on a mission. As co-CEO of information technology company Singlebrook Technology, Inc. headquartered in Ithaca NY, she wants to make the “benefit corporation” the future of business in America. For Miller-Out, becoming a benefit corporation isn’t just good for the bottom line, ad...

CSO vs. CEO: Owning Sustainability

Last Fall, the Weinreb Group published  CSO Back Story , identifying 29 Chief Sustainability Officers with that exact title working in the U.S. for publicly traded companies. Of the 29, we highlighted five CSOs (from SAP, EMC, AT&T, UPS and Dupont) whose perspectives included the value their role ...

Extracting Business Value out of Sustainability

After more than a decade of negotiations, there's news today that Dow Chemical has agreed to clean up 1,400 residential properties in Midland, Mich. The root cause: A Dow Chemical plant located in Midland, also home to its headquarters, responsible for polluting the area with dioxin for a better par...

Corporations: Psychopaths to Good Citizens

The 2003 documentary,  The Corporation , characterizes the modern corporation as suffering from psychopathic personality disorder. From “callous unconcern for the feelings of others” to “failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors,” the film lists the features of the disorder a...

Drunks, Lampposts and Sustainability's New Champions

Remember the drunk man stumbling around under the streetlamp? He has lost his car keys. Asked if that is where he lost them, he replies no, he lost them over there in the dark — but this is where the light is.

Corporations: Bad For Capitalism

Blaming Capitalism for Corporatism One of the big debates at Davos this year will concern the future of capitalism. But the system that is now in crisis is not capitalism, but corporatism, which chokes off the dynamism that makes for engaging work, faster economic growth, and greater opportunity and...