Archive for 'Business' Category
Who should directors be responsible to?
Posted by Sharon 26 November 2011After a month of argument and counter argument on the Next Director LinkedIn Group, I think it is time to move on and start to answer a much more interesting question: Who do we think directors should be responsible to? Should we only be answerable to shareholders, or do we also have some obligation to [...]
Are CEO’s responsible to shareholders or stakeholders?
Posted by Sharon 15 October 2011I love this question but wonder whether I am naive – the answer seems obvious to me (although making it happen will be harder). The responsibility to shareholders as the primary beneficiaries is currently enshrined in legislation which is created by legislators to serve society (supposedly). When this legislation no longer serves the needs of [...]
Waking up the Workplace
Posted by Sharon 25 May 2011I’m enjoying the podcasts from Ewan, Jeroen and Diederick at Waking up the Workplace. So far I’ve listened to Susanne Cook-Greuter, Bob Anderson, Tony Schwartz and Rand Stagen all talk about their take on Conscious Business and am looking forward to the call with Otto Scharmer tomorrow.
Being efficient with Social Media
Posted by Sharon 12 April 2011Many thanks to Gihan Perera’s Expert Gold newsletter and webinars for his simple guidelines which are helping to make my social media more efficient. If I follow his instructions properly, I will have a tweet and a FaceBook mention of this blog in a few minutes. If not then it’s the technician (me) not the [...]
If we believe it we can achieve it
Posted by Sharon 30 January 2011Now here’s a headline I like to see: “100% Renewable Energy is not limited to our Wildest Dreams” . According to the researchers, it is possible in 20-40 years at no extra cost. Read the Fast Company article here (you need to sign up for a login). The “only” barriers are social, business and political [...]
Books that make the Business Case for Sustainability
Posted by Sharon 4 January 2011Happy New Year. Over Christmas I read up on a number of books explaining the Business Case for Sustainability including: The Sustainability Advantage, by Bob Willard Sustainable Leadership: Honeybee & Locust Approaches, by Gayle Avery and Harald Bergsteiner Making Sustainability Work, by Marc Epstein I enjoyed all three books – Avery & Bergsteiner’s had many [...]
Respecting our Mother Earth
Posted by Sharon 4 June 2010Last night’s WakeUp Sydney event was a heart-expanding exploration of what it means to connect with our Mother Earth. Jono Fisher and the team did a fabulous job and I alternated between joy and sadness, compounded by reading an article on Natural Capitalism from the Harvard Business Review on the way to the event. This [...]
From ‘change’ towards ‘development’
Posted by Sharon 18 April 2010A lovely snippet from Russell Ackoff’s Reflections 2002 article: “Development is an increase in the desire and ability to satisfy one’s own needs and legitimate desires, and those of others“. This definition supports my quest to move beyond the concept of leadership and behaviour change. Changing behaviour is problematic because there is usually a positive [...]
Design Thinking
Posted by Sharon 19 March 2010Courtesy of AFR BOSS and UTS, I enjoyed hearing Roger Martin – Dean of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management – talk about design thinking yesterday. I especially liked hearing his experiences as a consultant with business managers and their reliability focus. It seems that the killer question that is asked of any new innovative recommendation [...]
Bill Gates starts the ‘Innovate to Zero’ party
Posted by Sharon 19 February 2010Thanks 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” and is challenging us to “innovate to Zero” emissions. I love that he is using a positive word like innovate – rather than a call [...]