Archive for 'Sustainability' Category
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 […]
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 to […]
Connecting for a Sustainable Future
Posted by Sharon 12 August 2009A 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 up and join me in connecting towards a more sustainable future at www.wiserearth.org
Do we really need abundance?
Posted by Sharon 29 July 2009A 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 ensure that we reduce our family and company footprint from its current level of 2.4 planets to something approaching 1.
It’s hard to avoid the lure of […]
A picture is worth…
Posted by Sharon 26 February 2009I 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, courtesy of Professor Gayle Avery at MGSM.
In frustration I turned to Wikipedia and found this image (reproduced on the left below) and suddenly all the […]
Bring on the Year of the CFO
Posted by Sharon 5 December 2008A 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 Responsibility are “dead” in 2009 and financial management, economic value add and execution will be business priorities.
My response to this provocation is as follows:
“This is […]
Market to your Ideal Client or else…
Posted by Sharon 3 September 2008A 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 better we are at identifying and marketing to our ideal clients, the more we get to work with interesting, likeable people and we get do […]
Sustainable Leadership - searching for elegant means
Posted by Sharon 20 August 2008I’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.
Tonight, as I read an article by consultant Dan Holden, I am struck by his use of the phrase “elegant means” - […]
Do what you love and the money will follow! …. but when?
Posted by Sharon 11 August 2008I 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 […]
Sustainability - people, planet, profits
Posted by Sharon 30 July 2008I 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 […]